Irving Singer has been publishing on the topic of love and sexuality in Western culture since the 1950s. This course is an expression of his decades of research and thinking, and it is available for free from MIT Open Courseware. Readers may peruse the topics of the course readings and even purchase the books if so desired, which include tracts by Friedrich Nietzsche, George Bernard Shaw, and four treatises by Singer himself. Then watch the course unfold through four Video Lectures in which Dr. Singer takes on such topics as same sex marriage, Greek concepts of love, and Freud's theories of the libido.