A love long
How unconditional can love be? Tijn Touber | June 2004 issue It happened again. I fell in love. And as I felt the butterflies fluttering about in my stomach I asked myself: “Is this true love?” I have to say there was some doubt in my mind because, as wise men always tell us, true love is Read More...
Dare to love
From an evolutionary perspective sex is a relatively new phenomenon, which may be why we haven't quite yet mastered it. But the so loudly applauded advent of free sex appears to be undermining Western society. It is possible to bring together spirituality and love. Ode went in search of the love Read More...
Desire and love
Desire is the wish to consume. To imbibe, devour, ingest and digest -- annihilate. Desire needs no other prompt but the presence of alterity.Zygmunt Bauman | December 2003 issue Desire and love. Siblings. Sometimes born as twins; never, though, as identical (single egg) twins. Desire is the wish to Read More...
Liquid love
Modern individuals continually yearn for the security of a relationship. At the same time they fear the accompanying obligations and impingements on their freedom. A philosophical look at an all too familiar paradox.Zygmunt Bauman | December 2003 issue My central characters are men and women, our Read More...