Love

In the intro, the play was said to be not just about sex, but about love, and the bond between the husband and the wife. I don’t really know about this, I’m trying to see the love in the story, and yes, I get the obvious love between husband and wife, but at the same time I don’t actually see it as love - not as I’ve seen love in the past plays. I don’t see the love between lysistrata and her husband (how he treats her), I don’t see the love between myrrhine and kinesis (he’s saying those things just to get her to bed) and especially when Peace is brought in and holds the attention of all the men. 

Now, the love I’m talking about is the husband-wife love. Other love I see a lot of, there is the love for their country and fellow man, the love for the safely of those they care about, and ect. But even though I know that the desire for their husbands to come home from the war stems from love, I don’t see it as the same love that I though should be there. But of course, I may simply have strange views on love, or what love is.