agapism


a·gap·ism

(ah'gahp-izm), A doctrine exalting nonsexual love. [G. agapē, brotherly love]

agapism

A philosophy of altruism, selflessness and brotherly fellowship (non-sexual love), first espoused by Henry Mayhew, a British social philospher in the 1850s; it was radopted 40 years later by an American philosopher, CS Peirce, and 60 years after that by the American hippie movement.