Rational love

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Rational love is a theory of sex based upon the implications of the writings of Ayn Rand. The theory is that one finds another sexually attractive only when the other represents the values of the former. The theory argues that sex is a physical response to intellectual and spiritual values – a mechanism for giving concrete expression to values that could otherwise only be experienced in the abstract. In Atlas Shrugged, she writes "Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself."^[1]

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