From the Archives: Cultures around the world fear unrequited love. One strategy to avoid the pain of rejection might be to spread your love around—but does that work?
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As an anthropologist, I wondered if I could work out how prevalent this fear is and gain insight into how societies have tried to cope. In China, for example, a common folk tale character is a fox fairy or spirit who takes the form of a beautiful woman in order to seduce and then kill her lover. Even today, Chinese men tease one another, saying that a particularly beautiful woman might be a fox fairy, and newspaper stories warn men about the dangers of falling in love with a mistress who feigns interest only to bankrupt and abandon her companion.
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