The Urbаn Prophet™ 5.0

While idling wandering through wikispace, I came across this word, compersion. Don't bother looking in the dictionary or checking your spellchecker it's not there but there is an entry on it in Wikipedia and you can actually find in google. Apparently it's an emotion. When I found this out, I was like wow, I thought I new of all the possible emotions as I think I've experienced them all at one point or another but no this was something completely new to me.

Compersion
Compersion is love manifested when a person takes joy in his or her loved one's happiness with another person. Also known as frubbly.

I was like what? Apparently this is what you feel when you watch the joy on a loved one's (loved one as in spouse or partner, not cousin or brother) face while being loved by another. It's supposedly an empathic form of pleasure experienced by polyamourous groups. Well, call me an illiberal old conservative, but if I so much as saw someone else 'loving' my partner I'd definitely get all 'frublly' on his face and show him what it feels like to be kicked in the compersions. Fair enough, I suppose this is taking the good old 'group hug' to another level and there would be people who could exist in such a relation(err..ship/ships?) but I think the average male would be much to territorial to stay happy sharing his partner(s) especially if theres a deep-routed emotions involved. I suppose this gets blurred if EVERYBODY wants to get down with one another, regardless of gender but then I don't think it's 'love' anymore, it would be more lust.

Then again, I suppose you shouldn't dis something you've never experienced too much as you don't have a point of reference. Albeit this, the question is not whether compersion is an enjoyable emotion, but whether it actualy is an emotion to begin with. My opinion is that it's actually a form voyeurism than an actual true to life emotion. The reason I say this is because emotions are like hard-wired programming in the brain that developed over the eons to ensure survival of the species. You feel love, because as a male, you want to propogate your genetic inheritance and as a female, you want to nurture the next generation. The notion of romantic love is actually a reasonably new creation (look it up). So how does watching a loved one receive love from another help our species progress? With this opinion I might be viewed as a caveman by some but hey, it's a point of view.

Eitherways, I'd be more than willing to hear what anyone else thinks about it and would definitely enjoy the ensuing banter...