Because humans are really, really hung up about sex in general, and we make it complicated. The idea of a potion that cuts right through all the bullshit sounds pretty good to just about everyone at some point in their lives.
Why are love potions always romantic in nature? Why hasn't anyone made a non-romantic variant?
Submitted 13 hours ago by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
IWW4@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
A non-romantic version?
You mean potions that kill you?
There are called poisons.
Or do you mean a potion that just lets you fuck the person?
They are called rufies.
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I think they meant a platonic love portion.
Brutticus@midwest.social 1 hour ago
My assumption is that friendship is a lot easier to initiate and maintain. Limmerence, especially, is a lot of anxiety about how the person feels and if I could only make them see the depth of my feelings and am I what they want. The kind of thing that a specific kind of person wishes for magic for.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Ahhh so a potion that makes someone your friend?
Options
- Alcohol
- Marajuana
- Cocaine
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
A restraining order potion would make a mint!
DomeGuy@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
You mean, instead of an eros potion it’d be a portion of agapa, philia, or xenia?
Most likely because “be nice to strangers” or “don’t defile the dead” can be easily enforced with violence without being rapey.
(And, worth noting, modern anti-depresssnts are kind of a philautía potion already, since they help with “love of self.”)
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
In Harry Potter, Voldemort’s mother used love potion on Voldemort’s father and he left after the spell wore off
PineRune@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Like a potion that just charms someone without making them fall in love? I’m pretty sure D&D has a spell that does exactly that, and just about any spell can be made into a potion IIRC.
bluGill@fedia.io 9 hours ago
Anti love potions exist and have been regularly used since before recorded history. We call the poison.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Romeo and Juliet was too obsessively into love, so they had to take some anti-love potions to calm down a bit.
They seem pretty calm now.
Happily ever after. 🤗
MECHAGIC@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
Like a friendship potion?
Jobe@feddit.org 10 hours ago
Beer? (Not an alcoholic, just an engineering student)
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
That would be a great item for a DND session. Could be sold by an incompetent or novice potion maker, or at some magic potion equivalent of a scratch and dent store. Or the dollar store version of a love potion.
Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
friendzone potion, you give it to someone crushing on you or hates you to turn them around. Some might argue showing up with beer / weed is a friendzone potion.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 hours ago
Because that would be a lust potion.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I mean, it could also be a “like” potion.
You drink the potion and everyone you meet just kind of likes you.
Of course, if it goes wrong, then everyone you meet likes you a little bit too much. And that’s when you would need that restraining order potion the other person mentioned.
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 12 hours ago
If it was a “like” potion, then it wouldn’t be a “love” potion.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
it’s weird how love potions are the fairy tale equivalent of rohypnol.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
Does the drug the voodoo practitioner gives to their zombies count as a submissive potion?
arin@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
We have an issue with date rape drugs here in USA. Its street name is roofie. Rohypnol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_rape_drug
Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Rick Potion #9
uhmbah@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Like, Viagra?
lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 13 hours ago
When I was young there were some pretty wild stories about spanish fly that weren’t very romantic.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Due to Cantharidin being toxic?
Goretantath@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
You mean like the story around its use being non romantic?? There’s tons like that. Otherwise idk what you are asking…
Treczoks@lemmy.world 15 minutes ago
That variant is called “date rape drug”.