Through life, people experience many kinds of love. Many people often believe they love someone, when they actually do not because they may not know what the word means. As much as we want to understand love, it is still simply indescribable. As C.S. Lewis tries to explain it in his book, The Four Loves, it is still a mystery as to what love truly means. I believe in order to know what love means, one must experience it. It is quite true that went two individuals are in love with each other, they know it and can feel it. No matter how much love is studied and looked at, every individual must experience it to understand it. Along with this love lies circumstances which lead people to either happiness or destruction. That is why love can be divine or demonic.Love is a very powerful word, and it has many meanings. These meanings are different for every individual. According to Lewis, there are four kinds of love. There is friendship love, affection, Eros, and charity. Lewis believes the strongest and most important of these loves is Eros. This kind of love deals with two intimate individuals. Lewis goes along to say that Eros is when one loves an individual for who they are, not what they can do. They love numerous things about an individual, not just the sexual aspects of the relationship, which is called Venus. Venus means sex, and Lewis relates this closely to Eros, he also contrasts the two. He agrees that when two love each other, they should have sex, meaning have pleasure with one another. Although, he also states that sex is not necessarily needed when in love, he does not disagree with the idea of having sex even if they are not in love or married. He believes it is right for every individual to want to be pleasured and to have fun, even if not in love. His main point between Eros and Venus is that they are two different things, and they do not necessarily go hand in hand, although they usually do. For a cou...
