I like how everyone jumps to the "not all love is about sex". Funny. I stand by AK47 on his first post.
Look at the fanfiction. Look at the shipping groups. How many do we see with talking about platonic love, friendship love, love of the "general kind"? No, it goes to the extreme, to the "i wanna have babies" part. That's the popular love, that's the mainstream media love that everyone talks about and hears about. That's what shipping has become. Not that you like somebody just for the sake of liking them and see how they interact with you. Instead we see more "making out" sessions per paragraph, fanart, whatever. That's not the kind of love I perceive in shippings. It's detestable. Why can't we have shippings based on canon interactions? Oh wait, those don't exist in Pokemon...wrong anime. @_@
I know it's a touchy subject for this part of the series. Because it's how this anime came about with shippings, unlike other anime.