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Is Virtual Sex in the Cyber Zones Possible? – Saul Wolfe

When Howard Rheingold wrote Virtual Reality over twenty years ago, speculating about how digital technology might create totally immersive on-line virtual sex, the possibility of enjoying multi-sensory copulation with some remote entity on the internet seemed wildly implausible. Sexual encounters were confined to textual exchanges, often pseudonymous, in obscure chat-rooms. The technical obstacles to creating convincing ‘teledildonics’ environments seemed insuperable.

Now the technology for immersing you in at least two of the sensory realms, sight and sound, has arrived in the porn industry market-place. At the recent XBiz adult entertainment conference in London, they were all talking about the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset, which according to one delegate ‘could make previous forms of adult entertainment obsolete.’ Presumably the effect is like sticking your head in a hologram, enclosing you totally in the virtual sex world of your choice.

There remain the challenges of digitally processing touch, taste and smell, such crucial elements of the erotic experience. But writers have been playing with the virtual reality trope for some time, exploring such possibilities and speculating on their consequences. M John Harrison in his superb novel Light evokes a seedy twenty-fifth century spaceport where a burned-out space pilot lets his life drift away in a virtual reality tank, sustained by ‘a mucoid slime of nutrients and tailored hormones.’

Virtual Sex Settings

In Paul A Green’s Beneath the Pleasure Zones the punters at Pleasure Centres plc struggle into tactile body-suits and neuro-sensitive helmets to experience scenarios based on old porn clips that have been automatically selected for them based on the aggregated information held by the Lobe, an alt.universe version of the Web. William Burroughs, in a 1985 essay, even considers encounters with partners who are totally synthesized.

‘You can get fucked by Pan, Jesus Christ, Apollo or the Devil himself. Anything you like likes you when you press the buttons.’ Burroughs also enthuses about potential settings for virtual sex, including a pirate ship, a 1910 outhouse and a Mongol tent. ‘It’s ready built, waiting for you…’

Multi-sensory virtual sex, whether with an algorithm or with a VR-suited human partner, seems a long way off. The problems inherent in digitally mimicking a caress or the perfume of a woman’s hair seem insurmountable at present, and the physical consequences of software or hardware malfunction could be alarming.

But the emergence of even duo-sensory virtual sex in the porn sex industry raises some questions about the way our culture might be evolving. Sexual fantasy has always energized society, both positively and negatively. Yet does the sexual solipsism of the head-set – ‘sex-in-the-head’ – take us a little bit further away from human interaction, with all the messy unpredictability that ultimately makes the act of love so exciting and rewarding?

I think so – but it all depends on what sort of a future we want. Some of the trans-humanists, like Ray Kurzweil, a prophet of post-human Singularity – when the contents of our brains are all uploaded into computers or even merged into some kind of super-consciousness – will see the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset as one small step in our inevitable mutation into Hyper-Real Digital Beings. I don’t want to spoil anyone’s fun but I have my doubts…

Saul Wolfe’s latest novel is Space Virgins of the Third Reich 

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Will Having An Affair Save My Marriage?

Having an affair puts a sparkle in your eyes. An affair makes you go out and buy new shoes with an extra spring in the step. When you’re having an affair you get thinner without trying. The lines around your eyes disappear. Your skin glows.

If you are having an affair, it could save your relationship. If you are not having an affair, and your relationship is rocky, then perhaps you should.

Betrayal makes your pulse race as you sneak off to seedy hotels. Sex in the back of the car makes you feel like a teenager, arms and legs everywhere like an octopus. In your apartment, when he should be working, the afternoon sun lights the bed and turns the tumbled sheets into a temple of unquenched desire.

When you are having an affair the feel of new hands crossing your bare flesh makes you tremble and sigh. When you open your body to take him (or her) inside it feels like reincarnation. You taste the air as if for the first time. You are young again.

Relationships get dull. It’s normal. You stop seeing each other. Small things become annoying – the click of the iPhone as you or he reads emails in bed means passion like a small bird has flown. When women get angry, emotional or tearful, it is often blamed on hormones, when in fact, the problem is the very opposite. Lack of libido is due to a reduction of hormone levels. Those levels vary through the monthly cycle, but fizz like a firecracker when the stranger suggests meeting up for a a drink.

Rules For Having An Affair

According to research scientist Jeanne Bryner, men and women cheat for different reasons: men crave quantity, notches on the gun, while women seek an emotional quality that is missing in their relationship. That might be true. But I believe it is simply that men and women are not designed to be monogamous but polyamory, a term defined by sex blogger Vanessa Pelz-Sharpe as a relationship that is “ethically non-monogamous” – a relationship where each partner is their own person without any sense of control or ownership.

In the past, women were expected to be monogamous, while men had their harems and concubines, their mistress hidden across town – spaghetti alla puttanesca, slut’s pasta, was invented by Italian ladies of the night because the dish can be whipped up in five minutes, filling their clients’ bellies after draining the other parts.

Those days have gone. Relationships are partnerships. Equality rules. If you have a failing relationship and having an affair is the only way to save it, then there are 3 secrets:

Do it
Enjoy it.
Shut up about it.

The essence of good writing is SHOW DON’T TELL. Having an affair is the same. Telling is a form of vanity disguised as honesty. Do it. Enjoy it. Shut up about it. Sex is good for you, sex every day burns calories and WILL MAKE YOU LIVE LONGER.

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Connecting the Unknown Self to the Self – by Bliss Lost

We have our known self and our unknown self. Life is a journey connecting the known self to our hidden unknown self. We can be shocked and horrified by whom we truly are. Being shocked and horrified is determined by the environment within which we were born and raised.

My first and last gay experience was when I was teenager with a boy the same age. It was oral sex after some skin on skin wrestling in his bedroom. A couple of years later, by chance, we happened to be staying at the same hotel. He informed me in his room that he wanted to ‘give it to me in the ass.’ It wasn’t for me and I said no. Now I know the reality of it was that I just wasn’t attracted to him.

For some years now I have been sharing my love and joy of anal sex with women. A lover I had some time ago introduced me to this in the most amazing way. It was so slow and sensual, she would lie on her side and I would gently push my gelled cock in as she pulled her leg slightly up. Every time we did it her pupils literally rolled in her head until all I could see was the whites of her eyes. I became lost in the pleasure we shared and, for a moment, glimpsed my unknown self.

My current lover also shares this joy with me. I am her first and I think I will be her last. She uses the most wonderful oil and sits on me when we meet to have our moments. She tastes her fingers as my cock goes in as if she is savouring the moment. But her greatest gift has been her acceptance of me from the start; compared to all of my lovers, I have been the most honest with her. Having her in my life has coincided with the point on my journey where I have accepted my unknown self.

Accepting My Unknown Self

My desire now is for him; there are only so many times you can finger yourself in the shower and realise you want more. Madonna phrased it so well when she said in that wonderful song “What it feels like for a Girl”. Yes I have taken the vibrator and the beads, but now I have discovered my unknown self and I accept that part of me that I have learned to love. Even if he must remain hidden from the world that knows me as I must present myself.

When I find the one, this man I will share my desire with, I will take him in all of me in every way, as he will me. It didn’t happen 22 years ago because I simply wasn’t attracted to my boyhood experience, not because I wasn’t bi-sexual, as I now know I am, but because he simply didn’t do it for me.

As I step off the known path of self-assuredness where I am versed at the seduction of my gorgeous women, to my search for him, I find that I am nervous. Trust is such an important thing and I am like a teenage girl wondering with whom I will lose my virginity. Will he just fuck me, or treat me as well as those wonderful women who I have seduced?

We should never go through life not knowing our unknown self; wondering is fine if you can do it and not feel your soul cry out. With so much hurt and hate in the world, is it such a crime to find joy and pleasure in loving and appreciating all that we as humans have to offer?

Bliss Lost is a writer. This is his first blog.

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Teen Nubile Sluts & Porn Addiction

I have been looking at a lot of teen nubile sluts this week and can see why people become porn addicts. Porn is like sex without orgasm, compulsive without being satisfying.

You may well ask: why am I wasting my time on porn when I should be writing my new novel? The answer is: my new novel is finished. It is with an editor. And a friend who thinks I deserve some time out keeps sending me links to sites that use words like teen, nubile and slut in the title. In fact, Teen Nubile Sluts uses all three.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Narcotics Anonymous borrowed the axiom from Albert Einstein for their marketing and I can understand why. Porn addiction is like drug addiction. You keep waiting for the high – the orgasm, the face of God, the moment of bliss, and it doesn’t come, or, if it does, it is malformed in some way, and so you try again.

The scenario in tales of teen nubile sluts is always the same. A girl of about 18 who looks “barely legal” (they love that phrase) appears at a “casting studio” where a “talent scout” auditions “actresses” for the “adult movie industry.” The girl is told the competition is fierce, but successful candidates earn $1,000 a day “or more.”

The interview is formal and diagnostic like going to a new dentist and talking about past cavities. The girl wriggles in her seat and nods her head to affirm that yes, she’s okay with oral sex, anal, girl-on-girl, two-men-and-a-girl… “Two?” she asks, the interviewer answers: “It’s normal when you’re getting $1,000 a day,” and you can see the mental arithmetic going on behind her wide-set eyes.

Having been primed by the chat, the teen nubile slut is invited to reveal her teen nubile body. There’s a moment’s hesitation, an almost imperceptible shrug, as if she has come to terms with who she is and how the money is going to change her life.

Teen Nubile Sluts Creampie

She stands, removes her clothes and the camera roams over her body like mauling hands. Being filmed naked is a performance. It is mildly arousing. The girl envisions her name in lights. She relaxes as she moves across the room to pose on the black sofa (it’s always a black sofa). “Open your legs. Nice, nice, very nice. Bend over now.”

She is reminded by the forty-something “talent scout” that this is a “casting” for the “adult movie industry.” There is another pause, brief as an intake of breath, and she opens wide to receive the guy in her mouth. She thinks about all those lovely dollars as she swallows him down. The camera rolls. Her openings are pierced one after the other. She pants and roars until, on her knees, the finale sees her tongue hanging out ready to receive his stream of semen in what they call at teen nubile sluts a creampie.

Viewers of these clips are invited to pay $100 to join the site to access thousands of teen nubile sluts and you ask yourself: why are these barely legal teenagers so keen to enter the “adult film industry?” How do the “agents” find this endless stream of gullible girls who, at a casting,  are almost certainly not being paid? And why can’t the girls see that the whole thing is a con trick? They will have signed away their rights on some form and I am sure they don’t know that they are going to be out there on the web forever.

In this faux casting, the girl, eager to get her stab at the film industry, acts like an untamed animal ravenous for sex. She gives her all, panting, roaring, quaking in orgasm like it’s the Big Bang creating the universe. The “agent”, shrewd, older, pot-bellied, plays the alpha-male leader of the pack, the theme conjuring up the sexual union between sex and death in the allegory in Death and the Maiden – in this case, purity despoiled, not by death, but the second of the Seven Deadly Sins: greed.

In our sexualised times, does it really matter? I haven’t decided, but I have asked my friend to stop sending links and I’m making notes for a new novel.

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Sex Drive by Ken Finton

Do men have a greater sex drive than women?

Many studies have been done to compare the sex drive and sexual appetites of men and women. How many of them have any value to us as individuals?nProbably none, because as individuals we vary greatly. None of us are a typical cross sample because typical samples do not exist. Statistics are mathematical averages like the average temperature in a given month.

I can bear witness to the fact that sex is a driving force in adolescent years and reduces in importance with time and age. They say this is partially caused by a decrease in testosterone output as men age. Obviously, nature has not objected to this decrease. It seems to be natural and inherited process that leads some to a more focused use of their time and effort.

When given this hormone, “At the higher dose, the percentages of women who had sexual fantasies, masturbated, or engaged in sexual intercourse at least once a week increased two to three times from base line.” [The New England Journal of Medicine, September 7, 2000.]

This then shows that a high sex drive is a product of male hormonal levels? Maybe not. The tests were conducted on women who had had hysterectomies and hormonal disorders.

I can tell you this. I have desired thousands more women than women have desired me. That is the primary difference between male and female sex drive. It does not take that much to set a man off on the road to desire. It is a path he has followed all his life.

Sex Drive Survival

It is likely an ancient biological trait that enabled the choice of stronger, more dependable mates for the procreation of the family group. That is why there is a battle of the sexes. That is why many men feel rejected, lose self confidence, then settle for less desirable women. This balance populates the world.

On the whole, one would think that a man and a woman’s sex drive should be about equal. Once procreation is removed from the picture, the woman might even have a stronger drive than the man. The big difference is the woman’s ability to say ‘Yes’.

Men cannot sexually perform repeatedly as women can. This difference in biology can be used to show that women can have an even greater sex drive than men. Visions and tales of profligate women abound. These stories put the braggadocio of the world’s playboys to shame.

The Roman Empress Theodora would take on thirty slaves at a time to make certain that she was properly served. According to Procopius, she used all three of her body openings and lamented not having a fourth of a fifth that could be filled. Pliny the Elder told us of Messalina, wife of Claudius, cousin to Nero and Caligula. She was one of the most promiscuous women in Rome. She competed with a prostitute to see who could have sex with the most men in a single night. Messina had the greatest sex drive and won the contest.

Sexual appetites are as important to us as food itself – men and woman alike – provided they are healthy mentally and physically. Sometimes it seems a shame that society perverts these ancient longings for the sake of social perpetuity.

Advertisements flood us with promises of sexual gratification. Movies and books fill us up with fantasies and stories that we might have never known, had we not been semi-literate movie goers and seekers of the mysterious unknown.

Ken Finton is a published songwriter, poet, novelist, publisher and writer of online short stories and undervalued opinions. Visit his WEBSITE

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Sex Drive

Ken Finton Guest Blog

Do men have a greater sex drive than women?

Many studies have been done to compare the sex drive and sexual appetites of men and women. How many of them have any value to us as individuals?nProbably none, because as individuals we vary greatly. None of us are a typical cross sample because typical samples do not exist. Statistics are mathematical averages like the average temperature in a given month.

I can bear witness to the fact that sex is a driving force in adolescent years and reduces in importance with time and age. They say this is partially caused by a decrease in testosterone output as men age. Obviously, nature has not objected to this decrease. It seems to be natural and inherited process that leads some to a more focused use of their time and effort.

When given this hormone, “At the higher dose, the percentages of women who had sexual fantasies, masturbated, or engaged in sexual intercourse at least once a week increased two to three times from base line.” [The New England Journal of Medicine, September 7, 2000.]

This then shows that a high sex drive is a product of male hormonal levels? Maybe not. The tests were conducted on women who had had hysterectomies and hormonal disorders.

I can tell you this. I have desired thousands more women than women have desired me. That is the primary difference between male and female sex drive. It does not take that much to set a man off on the road to desire. It is a path he has followed all his life.

Sex Drive Survival

It is likely an ancient biological trait that enabled the choice of stronger, more dependable mates for the procreation of the family group. That is why there is a battle of the sexes. That is why many men feel rejected, lose self confidence, then settle for less desirable women. This balance populates the world.

On the whole, one would think that a man and a woman’s sex drive should be about equal. Once procreation is removed from the picture, the woman might even have a stronger drive than the man. The big difference is the woman’s ability to say ‘Yes’.

Men cannot sexually perform repeatedly as women can. This difference in biology can be used to show that women can have an even greater sex drive than men. Visions and tales of profligate women abound. These stories put the braggadocio of the world’s playboys to shame.

The Roman Empress Theodora would take on thirty slaves at a time to make certain that she was properly served. According to Procopius, she used all three of her body openings and lamented not having a fourth of a fifth that could be filled. Pliny the Elder told us of Messalina, wife of Claudius, cousin to Nero and Caligula. She was one of the most promiscuous women in Rome. She competed with a prostitute to see who could have sex with the most men in a single night. Messina had the greatest sex drive and won the contest.

Sexual appetites are as important to us as food itself – men and woman alike – provided they are healthy mentally and physically. Sometimes it seems a shame that society perverts these ancient longings for the sake of social perpetuity.

Advertisements flood us with promises of sexual gratification. Movies and books fill us up with fantasies and stories that we might have never known, had we not been semi-literate movie goers and seekers of the mysterious unknown.

Ken Finton is a published songwriter, poet, novelist, publisher and writer of online short stories and undervalued opinions. Visit his WEBSITE

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How To Get Free Sex & Money the NLP Way

You can get free sex and better health through an easy method that will save you time and money. A new discovery with proven and guaranteed results will help you achieve your goals and even fall in love.

Free sex? And money? Guaranteed results? Have I still got your attention? I certainly should have. According to a 1970s study into Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) at Duke’s University Psychology Department, there are 12 words that have a proven emotional affect on a listener or reader. They are:

You
Money
Love
Free
Save
New
Easy
Discovery
Results
Health
Proven
Guarantee

Sex is not on the list and I suppose free sex and free love meant the same thing in the 1970s. Ad agencies were quick to understand the potential of the research and started planting these key words in marketing campaigns – slowly filtering out love and supplanting it with sex.

Richard Bandler and John Grinder developed Neuro-Linguistic Programming in the 1970s as a tool for: ‘potent psychological healing in all areas of life.’ Followers paid hefty subscriptions to learn through positive thinking how to be more confident, outgoing and successful. Like the ad men, pick-up artists began to incorporate NLP into their techniques for seducing women – trained little Pavlov’s dogs that we are.

Free Sex Player

Girls, most girls, want to please. They answer yes to those men who know how to pose the right questions. What came as a surprise to was discovering that there is a guide for men who want to seduce women called The Game, an allegedly true memoir of how Neil Strauss, a shy, inhibited guy, turns himself into a smooth-talking womaniser.

The technique is basically this: when a man meets a woman he wants to get into bed, he doesn’t look directly at her and speaks to her with indifference. Strauss suggests that in this way, the woman grows anxious to please. At the appropriate time, he touches her in a casual way, and turns the situation around by giving her something – it’s called anchoring – a glass of wine, his phone number, some attention. He pays her a small compliment and uses ‘trigger’ words (will you do something for me?) to show that he is agreeable if she responds positively to his requests.

Strauss’s book came flooding into my mind the other night when I was in a bar with Sophie, a particularly good-looking friend men always want to get into bed. A guy appeared, said something funny to the barman that made him laugh, then turned to me with a warm smile.

“I need this,” he said, taking a sip of his drink. “I spent twenty minutes looking for a free parking spot trying to save money and ended up on a meter anyway. I’m going to walk next time.”

This was a good opening gambit, self-effacing but confident. He introduced himself and focused completely on me, totally ignoring Sophie. When she did speak, he glanced at her briefly without smiling, then turned back to me, peppering his conversation with key words: money, discovery, free sex, good health.

NLP is about ‘getting results,’ it says in the marketing. Our seducer at the bar clearly thought he had reached the optimum moment when he bought a fresh round of drinks. He turned to Sophie for the first time and touched the back of her hand. ‘I love what your wearing, you’re not a model are you?’

‘No, I’m an investment banker,’ she replied. ‘And I prefer girls.’

Sophie isn’t a lesbian, she’s married. She has also been around long enough to know when the friendly guy at the bar is just a player looking for a night of free sex, no obligations and another tick in his NLP box of targets pursued and accomplished. Women are wising up and it’s about time men found out what women really want it bed.

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Quentin Tarantino – Masterclass in Screenwriting

Jay Robert Baer Guest Blog

Quentin Tarantino is one of the most creative, copied and original screenwriters of the modern era. Like an explorer in an unknown continent, or a space pilot going places no one has been before, Tarantino has dug the footings, laid cinematic roadwork and created a substructure, as well as a subculture, without parallel.

Across the world audiences wait  breathlessly for a new Tarantino film to appear on the big screen. Each release is a masterclass in screenwriting and addicts of all ages memorise his dialogue just as admirers in past times learned Shakespeare and the poems of Byron and Walt Whitman.

Quentin Tarantino is my personal mentor, not that he know anything about this, of course. It’s a private thing between me and his words. By studying his work, my own writing has improved to such a degree that when I look back on early drafts of my screenplays, I can see the faults, the holes, the gaps, the clichés; I can almost smell and taste the improvements.

Every writer needs a personal hero, a guide on the long march into the empty page, someone to model themselves after, to emulate. You copy, you imitate, you re-read, then you set everything you’ve written on fire and the phoenix in you arises from the ashes. Maybe you like Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, Diablo Cody. There is so much we can learn from all of them. But, for me, there is only one master.

Movies, says Tarantino, are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

Quentin Tarantino Method

It may come as a surprise but Tarantino, so hip in so many ways, doesn’t use a PC or laptop. He writes by hand. Using paper. Paper! What the hell is that? Some weird stuff invented by the Chinese? While writing, he says, he is not concerned with the entire story, just the page he is working on, that line of dialogue, that memorable phrase: I’m gonna get medieval on your ass, as Marsellus tells the hillbilly-boy in Pulp Fiction.

I can see the positive aspect in working like this. There is in the subconscious some primitive link to pen and paper that coaxes out the words so they sit comfortably on the page. It feels right. If you take a look at the opening scene of Reservoir Dogs, the guys sit around a table in a diner eating breakfast. They are about to rob a jewelry store, so, do they talk about the robbery? Do they whisper to each other about how it is going to go down? No, they talk about how much they should tip the waitress. Their whole conversation, and it goes on for a while, is about tipping. And something else. We learn about the characters through these throwaway comments – who is generous, who is a mean son of a bitch, traits that will come out as the story unfolds.

Pulp Fiction opens the same way. Vincent and Jules talk about Vincent’s trip to Amsterdam and how they serve beer in the movie theaters. They gab about what a quarter pounder with cheese is called in France. The audience has no clue that they are about to murder four young guys. After this witty if trite dialogue, again showing aspects of character, the two gunmen are all business.

Creating characters such as Jules and Vincent is the writer’s greatest challenge and, of course, their greatest gift to the world of cinema. Writers like Quentin Tarantino don’t come around everyday and, as of right now, there is no rival. Unless the next Tarantino lies inside of you. Write Fast-Write Easy.

Follow Jay Robert Baer at SpeedScreenwriting  and Facebook

Here are a few sites for you to dig deeper into the mind of Q.T.

Quentin Tarantino on Writing a Script

Books about Tarantino from Amazon


New York Times-Quentin’s World

Interview with Charlie Rose on Inglorious Bastards Pt.1 - and - Pt 2. 

Tarantino on Making Movies-youtube

Related articles across the web

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Love Locks on the Bridge of Love

Gemma sent me a postcard: “In Paris. September’s best month. Love the Seine and it’s really sunny. Wish you were here … oh, and I just left a couple of love locks on the Pont Des Arts with Gérard.” Love locks? Twin love? Gérard? Who the hell’s Gérard? And how come Gemma went to Paris without telling me? Gemma tells me everything. Usually more than I want to know.

Not that it comes as a surprise that she’s ‘discovered’ love locks. The trend has gone global – everywhere, all at once, all of a sudden. Like the internet. In the age of sexting and nude selfies, couples still have an impulse to run off somewhere romantic and ritually uniting a pair of initialled padlocks appeals to our primitive instincts.

Bridges are de rigueur and, quite aside from being romantic, after clamping the love locks on the struts and supports, the couples throw the keys in the river as a sign of everlasting love. Not that local authorities always approve. Love is a messy business. Love locks are often considered litter and some councils send out workmen to cut the locks off, breaking the charm and breaking hearts, too, I imagine.

The love locks craze started at about the time of the new millennium and took off in 2006 after the publication of I want You by Federico Moccia, in which the writer describes a couple hanging locks on the Ponte Milvio in Rome.

Love Locks History

But the history of love locks is far older and dates back to the opening shots of the First World War 100 years ago. A pretty young Serbian schoolteacher named Nada would meet her boyfriend Relja at sunset every day on the Bridge Most Ljubavi in the spa town of Vrnjacka Banja. They became engaged, they planned to marry, and would have married. But on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo, their Serb countryman Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, an attempt to free the Slavs from domination, and the world went to war.

Relja, a young officer, was sent to Greece and promptly fell in love with a woman in Corfu. When he broke off the engagement, Nada fell into melancholy and died of a broken heart. In an attempt to safeguard their love, girls with young soldiers at war began writing their names and the names of their lover on padlocks and hanging them where Nada and Relja had met each day at sunset, on the Bridge Most Ljubavi – in English the Bridge of Love.

I have yet to meet Gérard.

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Twin Love – does it really exist?

R.M.Simone Guest Blog

Everywhere you look, books on twin love or twin flames flood the shelves in bookshops. The Twilight books affirmed the desire for true love, even if he was a vampire and she a mortal. A Romeo and Juliet love story sits in our base psyches wishing to ‘come alive’. The Enchanted Fairy Tale and classic love stories await being awakened in us all.

We all dream of that twin love, that true love be everlasting. This is the love of the soul seeking its original other half reflected in the relationship of a magical or cosmic nature that brings this love into being. Do enchanted or enchantingly charming love stories exist beyond the writer’s imagination or the fables of time gone by? I like to believe so.

Within each of us sits Eros and Psyche preparing to open Pandora’s Box so we may fall head-over-heels into a Looking Glass that reflects a love that equals desire. We ardently seek this kind of twin love. We strive to bring together that which has drifted apart from our own soul.

Psychologist Bruno Bettelheim wrote: Fairy tales are maps for the psyche and the child becomes a blueprint to guide the soul as it encounters the landscape symbolism in real life. In other words, stories of myth, legend and fable leave an imprint on our psyches and help us find true love.

Twin Love Enchantment

Twin love is also known as twin flame. This is the spiritual love that I try to capture in my books, as well as the work I do with others on real-life dreams and relationships. Twin flames are a catalyst for Kundalini rising, opening both the passions of the heart and our sexual spiritual energy. There are other kinds of twins in the love cosmos: twin angelic loves, starseed twins, elemental twins, mermaid twins, twin rays and the completion twin ideal love mates. This is also true of soul mates and key soul mates.

The alchemy of twin flames lights the body fires and leads to the spiritual awakening of body and soul. In those fires, passion forges links to complete a Tantric connection. Enchantment is real, even after the magic spell wears off. It is called LOVE.

My books draw on the great myths and I set out in my stories to embed codes and energies that activate and attract twin love into the lives of my readers. Love in a contemporary sense means passion, high sexual content, erotica. At the core of this is my own desire to share love stories that enchant the reader and open their hearts to those realms that only love can take them into.

“The dream I carried inside was maybe a fantasy about love. I was too old for fairy tales. I did, however, hold to this wish, that love in some strange way would ‘meet itself’ pouring forth all that was withheld. I never told anyone about my wish.” From Gothic Gates Venice

Discover more about Twin Love at  R.M.Simone’s  WEBSITE

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