The purpose of this article is to provide a bibliographic review about the theme of love and conjugality in the contemporary world including contributions from authors such as Bozon, Gagnon and others. The theme of love has been discussed not only in human and social science but particularly in psychology. The perspective adopted in this work presents contribution from the sociology of human sexuality. Its revision demonstrates love as a social interaction perspective experienced as a loving sentiment. The analysis focuses basically on the sexual scripts theory, which understands love as a social practice although lived as a feeling. This hybrid form consists in one of the main characteristics of contemporary love.
Love; sexual scripts; conjugality