Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds

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We ask participants to practice a ‘two-taps’ signal to clearly indicate that you do not wish to be touched. We demonstrate this to all participants during our initial conversation and ask you to respect the system during the session. Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds is a 2003 book by Zygmunt Bauman which discusses human relations in liquid modern ( post-modern) world. The book is part of series of books written by Bauman, such as Liquid Life and Liquid Times.

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. The concept is simple: we will pour warm, fine, olive oil on to your skin, from where it will spread out over you body and form a lubricious substance, which allows you to float in a sea together with other oily bodies. 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.If we maintain relationships with an expiration date, it is because society pushes us to do so , to have increasingly weak and flexible links, to take little root wherever we go. That's how they educate us, that's how we are.We teach children that they can have toys and gadgets technological if they pass the next exam, and we are introducing them into a market culture where one should only be motivated by the rewards that are obtained in exchange for their work, thus canceling the intrinsic motivations and the genuine tastes of each person. We ask that your PAL is someone you know well and trust. You are both accountable for the behaviour of the other. Please keep this in mind when agreeing to PAL another person. Exploring your mindBlog about psychology and philosophy. Articles and opinions on happiness, fear and other aspects of human psychology. 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. 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

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.” 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. Perhaps the emergence of social networks and new technologies has played a role in consolidating this trend suffered by many people. We live in a world in constant change, where the virtual and the real are confused with astonishing ease. Each session has a different group of people, and therefore each session is different. However, to give you some idea of the flow of a session, we begin by getting to know each other as we talk about the experience we are going to share. You will then ready yourself on the specially prepared surface. As warm oil is poured over the body, you wil be guided through an exploration of yourself and others around you. We encourage non-verbal communication in this part of the afternoon. It is typical of the information society and consumption in which we find ourselves. People give more value to present experience, to freedom without any kind of ties , to the punctual and little responsible consumption and to the immediate satisfaction of the corporal and intellectual needs. Everything that does not meet the requirement of immediacy, of "throwaway", is discarded.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 My aversion to forced fun has not been altered by attending the session, but if you're up for getting slippery with strangers, Liquid Love is certainly somewhere to do it. Our events are a supportive and safe space and there's absolutely no judgement if you can't make it for the above reasons. Due to time restrictions and to maintain absolute discretion please get in touch prior to the event if you'd like to discuss these points further as there won't be available time once you arrive at the venue. This promotes the feeling that not only objects but also people are consumable, and therefore potential sexual partners are objectified. That person that attracts us is not more than a piece of meat that should be tasted, and it is not necessary that we worry about their desires, worries, needs, tastes ... How are we going to connect emotionally with someone if we are only interested in having something carnal? Liquid love and reification