What Is Love? – Serena Gaia

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What Is Love? Dialogs with Gaia

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio

Table of Contents

1: Love as Art		3
2: Initiations		15
3: The Pleasure of the Other		28
4: Monogamy and Monosexuality		46
5: Romance, Sexuality, Exclusivity		63
6: Beyond Exclusivity: Compersion, the Spirit of Polyamory		87
7: Fluid Bonding: Health and Safety in Erotic Communities		109
8: Beyond Monosexuality: Fluidity, Knowledge, Eros		132
9: Ecosexual Love in Cyberspace 10: Ecosexuality and Holistic Sexual Health		157 179

Annie Sprinkle, Tit Print

To readers: This book is a dialog between me and myself. In between is the Universe. I have followed the teachings of the ancients, who also used dialogs in a philosophical form. We need a new vision of love. A vision that will persuade this cosmic force to stay. The space between Gaia and Serena is where the new vision manifests.

This is probably the most inspiring book I’ve ever done. I am seeking endorsements from all the writers, healers, lovers of love I know. Publishers want to hear your voice. Let’s give the book its best chance to go out in the world and perform its transfomative effect. You are invited to request chapters and write your endorsements in the form of “blurbs.” Snapshots are intended to guide your choice. I will need your endorsements by the end of August. Thank you!

Snapshots of Chapters

1: Love As Art

The theory that love is an art and what makes it an essential life affirming interpretation. The cosmic force of love as the ecology of life.

2: Initiations

The rituals that create the sacred spaces where the energy of love is invoked and the arts of loving are learned.

3: The Pleasure of the Other

The explanation of why a good artist of love is a lover who experiences the pleasure of the other as his or her own.

4: Monogamy and Monosexuality

The institutions that regulate love as the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain of a divided world that smothers the energy of love.

5: Romance, Sexuality, and Exclusivity

The three essential elements of love that function like essential colors in the palette of artists of love who mix and match them in different combinations.

6: Beyond Exclusivity: Compersion, the Spirit of Polyamory

The joy of holding the space of love for others. What planet Earth does across time and space when she hosts life and sources the cosmic energy of love.

7: Fluid Bonding: Health and Safety in Erotic Communities

Why a world where it is safe to love is a world where it is safe to live. What practices of health protect the safety of amorous communities and their participants.

8: Beyond Monosexuality: Fluidity, Knowledge, Eros

Why when love is interpreted as an art, loving beyond gender is natural and bisexuality is a portal to this ecosexual world of sexual fluidity and amorous inclusiveness.

9: Ecosexual Love in Cyberspace

The interpretation of cyberspace as a new dimension of love that activates the sphere of planetary consciousness also known as noopshere at new levels of inclusiveness, fluidity, and intensity.

10: Ecosexuality and Holistic Sexual Health

Ecosexuality as the practice of love beyond gender, numbers, ages, orientations, races, and species. The style of love that embraces all of life as a partner with equal rights and optimizes local, global, and ecosystemic health.