No offense meant but I hope this isn't High School Sociology, and if not, I'm dumdfounded that you ask?Love cannot be defined in any consensus. It's an irrational, ill defined emotion, even by Webster. It is what it is in various ways individually ane experiencially, and not put in any category, or strictly confined box, or file system.It often begins as Lust at the very least, perhaps leading to a deeper interest and exploration. It is a passion but need no always be the heated sweat of sex. If any are"emotionally"intimate, as opposed to casually intimate in a library sharing of the love of books sense, I suggest they will at some point become sexually intimate. SEX should be about emotion, YIKES what can be differetiated?AH acceptance. Obviously, and to address the sentence, we all have the ability to self gratify. Dies that fulfill us? Perhaps in some cases, but usually leads to exploring other options. Sexuality preferences debates go on all the time, and here is not the place to offre any substantive answers. We all have primal urges, latent or otherwise, and they can, or do surface in situations. Behaviors also cannot be defined geerally, they are individual, often subjective, again depending on situations or circumstances.The last sentence is also a very narrow suggestion of who and what and can't strictly be answered here in a blanket sense. To encourage, do you mean convert another to your way of thinking? Your moral judgement process? AND what right have you to do so,or how does anothers judgement affect you personally?Ah Ok and finally there is the suggestion that someone is intruding into anothers life, thought process, and sense of free will. You cannot MAKE another do what they choose not to do, nor should you try. The object, or process of living ones own life is all about Tolerance, acceptance. some risks and consequences and compromise that isn't strictly degrading. Beyond that I seem to recall that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in 1865.CherylDon't get me startedOh LOLOL, TY Angel and I hope it's Ok I used you as a lifeline