Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds

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We invite you to move and allow yourself to be moved without intentions or sexual orientation. Releasing our usual desire to take action on erotic sensations and thoughts we invite you to be present with them and to relax into the energetic flow of the bodies around you. This is a place where you can love and be loved in an impersonal and unbound manner and above all a place to super charge your soul.

It’s not all that surprising that relationships have become more fleeting, given the broader social tendency toward one-time consumerism and the quest for satisfaction of our momentary needs. We are not just talking about interpersonal relationships, but also the relationship that we establish with ourselves, what Bauman himself called “the liquidity of self-love.” Liquid love. It’s possible that you have heard about this interesting concept explained by sociologist Zygmunt Bauman who uses this poetic but distressing metaphor to convey the reality that seems to come up rather frequently nowadays: the fragility of relationships. Another of the great pillars in which he holds liquid love is the reification of people. That is, the tendency to perceive and value people as objects, things. Means, finally, to achieve an end: physical pleasure, social acceptance of others, etc.

On the other hand, if we trust in ourselves we can go forward little by little, noticing what the other person's desires are and being able to develop good feelings in a reciprocal way, with more lasting and stable relationships. The well understood commitment is born of the union of interests and tastes , and also of the tenderness that both people profess. 3. Slavery What about love? It's always been a problem, but now more than ever. Its pathos, Bauman finds, is the insurmountable duality of beings. Proust knew that when Marcel trapped his beloved Albertine in his hotel room, thinking that in so doing he would finally possess her, his love for her died. Bauman writes: "Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love. Eros won't outlast duality. As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." Sisyphus had it easy. The work of the liquid modern is likewise never done, but it takes much more imagination. Bauman finds his hero working everywhere - jabbering into mobile phones, addictively texting, leaping from one chat room to another, internet dating (whose key appeal, Bauman notes, is that you can always delete a date without pain or peril). The liquid modern is forever at work, forever replacing quality of relationship with quantity. Liquid Love is open to people of all genders and sexual orientations. There is an atmosphere of respect and acceptance at all times.

For the uprooted and anxious man there was no direction home. He was too tense and self-conscious to swan into middle-class soirées with aplomb, and as for trying to stay chummy with people from his own class, he could put that idea right out of his head. "They can immediately detect from the uncertainty of his attitudes," wrote Hoggart, "that he belongs neither to them nor to one of the groups with which they are used to performing a hierarchical play of relations." He was doomed to be the odd man out.

No untrimmed toenails are permitted in the space. Untrimmed toenails are a high hygiene risk and we reserve the right to ask you not to take part if we feel that your personal hygiene presents a risk to others. We invite you to move beyond personal preference and ideas of sexual attraction, into a space of welcoming and appreciating everyone. Many people fail to understand that to love another individual deeply is necessary to love yourself first. This, which is a reality that few doubt, is not usually the basis on which many relationships are built, in which other values ​​and needs that have little to do with emotional well-being prevail. It can also be due to the fear of feeling cheated or injured. The fear of love or philophobia usually paralyze us and avoid everything that sounds like commitment, making it impossible for us to create solid and deep relationships. Liquid connection versus long-term love The metaphor of liquid courses through the book. Relationships are like Ribena for the new uprooted and anxious - taken undiluted, they are nauseating. Our deepest wish is to prevent our relationships from curdling and clotting (that, we fear, is what marriages used to be about). That's not to say that we're all hipster SDCs (semi-detached couples), the self-styled romantic revolutionaries who want separate pads from their partners and a Rolodex filled with ready lovers. We don't all want to pour water on troubled rela tionships, and the SDCs, so emblematic of the liquid modern age, provoke as much hostility as identification.