Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most tragic impossible love story ever told: “Two households, both alike in dignity, (…) From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life; whole misadventured piteous overthrows. Do with their death bury their parents’ strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love”. Cinema, music, literature… all forms of art has illustrated a thousand times the stories of impossible love. Unfortunately, it is not necessary to resort to fiction to find them. You just have to look around you: the world is full of lovers whose circumstances do not allow them to drift freely for what they feel.

Since the world began, the differences between humans have existed. We all are of different races, of different colours, of different social status, etc. And these differences are, precisely, those which destroy the hearts of two lovers that love each other like crazy. Otherwise, who does not know or has not heard in any occasion about the story of an impossible love because the girl was a gypsy and the boy a bumpkin? Or because the boy was black and the girl, white… It also happens when one belongs to a high sphere of society, and the other has a humble origin. But all of this should not be taken into account because if the love is real, the differences between lovers cease to exist.

What about the age? Can the love between two people with a big age difference produce fruit? Many people think that a lapse of 20 years is too much of a difference. If a girl of 20 is in love with a man of 40, people always think the worst. Her parents especially are the ones who strongly oppose this kind of relationship. But, what’s the problem? Does love need standards? When one falls in love, one does not choose whom, neither when, nor how … It just happens!

Sometimes the religion is also a problem. She, a Muslim, of a very traditional family, falls in love with a Christian. But how could it happen?! Her parents will never accept that she marries with a non-Muslim man, although the love they profess for each other is much stronger than their own religion. True love knows no boundaries.

“From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you, the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!” Romeo and Juliet die because of their impossible love. It was a fatal outcome for a couple whose love seemed too great for everybody.

If you’ve ever fallen in love, you should know how much force this sentiment that ignores races, ages, cultures or religions has. Maybe because of that people use to say that love is blind… Are you in love? Surprise your partner with a trip to Italy. Rent some fine Milan apartments and give free rein to your love. And remember, impossible love doesn’t exist!

They wanted to burn the museums, the libraries and to go to the streets to shout, to make noise, to recite senseless poems and to declare their opposition against the past. They are the Italian Futurists, a movement led by the fascist poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, whose message was the one of the modern era, of the industrial change which took place in the early twentieth century. They used machinery and the movement as progress symbols, denying everything that was synonymous with academics or with the past. The Futurist art had a violent and revolutionary attitude, more than any other avant-garde art movement.

‘We intend to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and fearlessness’, declares the first principle of the Futurist Manifesto published in the French newspaper Le Figaro, in 1909. Artists such as Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo and Gino Severini were the most active in the futuristic scene. They loved painting cars, urban movements or horses, since the advent element as the electricity, the telephone, the aircraft and the cinema changed the outlook of the beauty: this was synonymous with speed and industrialization. These themes dominated the paintings, painted with violent colours, with angry and dynamic brushwork. The bustle of the city was illustrated by a loss of the spatial references and of the overloaded spaces. The art becomes the echo of the relationship between the man and the city.

The sculpture by Umberto Boccioni,  “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space” (1913 – see photo) is one of the most characteristic works as it entails the search for movement of shape and a powerful force that is so dear to the Futurists. Today it appears emblazoned on the twenty cent coins in Italy.

Literature, architecture, advertising, music, cinema and other arts were other ways of Futurism expression impregnated with this new spirit. They wrote onomatopoeia, which were recited aloud in multiple languages simultaneously, creating the most chaotic sounds ever invented: they reinvented language, making it warrior-like and nationalistic.

Antonio Sant ‘Elia and Mario Chiattone proposed in 1914 – the end of the movement, the first drawings of a modern city along with the Manifesto of the Futurist architecture, a blueprint for a utopian city, the New Town. They defend the iron and glass train stations and airplanes, the power plants and the elevators, etc. According to them, these were the symbols of a rejuvenation of the world.

The futuristic spirit will have its influence on later movements like Dadaism and Constructivism. Marcel Duchamp inspired the attitude of the tabula rasa, a Latin phrase that illustrates the action of not taking into account past events. Travel to Milan, the birthplace of this amazing art movement: to enjoy the city, rent Milan apartments, they are cheap and very comfortable!

Just about everyone has tried some kind of drugs in their life. Consuming drugs at the weekends, or even taking some drugs at home every day has unfortunately become something very normal. Although drugs can help you to loose shyness and fear and feel free at parties regarding sexual behaviour, they have a real negative influence. Also, the stimulating effects of drugs have their limits and each kind of drug abuse can put you straight on the highway to hell. So, be aware of that!

Marihuana, cocaine, hashish, amphetamines, heroin, ecstasy, alcohol…the list of different types of drugs is already known, but not so the negative effects they have on our sex life. First you smoke a joint and have a beer in a relaxing atmosphere at home, then you go for some drinks with your friends in a pub and later you’ll end up in a club or a discotheque. Although you almost can’t keep your eyes open, your whole body is moving on at a continuous pace without stopping and you find yourself in a kind of trance, just like sex. True or false?

Whether for your nervous system or your libido, excessive drug-taking is just unhealthy. A lot of people think that drugs have similar effects like aphrodisiacs but, in contrast to chocolate and ginger, drugs leave noticeable traces in your body. The negative effects on the long term or in the case of drug addiction are very extensive, starting with sexual appetence to problems of having an orgasm or getting an erection. Furthermore, due to losing our inhibitions, the danger of sexually transmitted diseases rises constantly. You always should be in your right mind and use your head. Losing control of yourself through drugs will be your own death sentence. Do you really want to stink of beer, have red pot-smoker eyes or just be dumb because of too much of hashish?

“Take the best orgasm you’ve ever had… multiply it by a thousand, and you’re still nowhere near it.” says the main actor in Trainspotting. For getting into a state of trance, it isn’t necessary to take unnatural and unhealthy drugs. Everyone is undoubtedly more seductive and irresistible without the use of drugs. Passion, erection and orgasm can be your best friend: discover your own body and that of your partner. It would be very sad if you were not able to enjoy an erotic paradise without taking drugs, wouldn’t it?

Most people try drugs for the first time just because they are curious. The most important thing is to know how to keep control and don’t fall into excessive drug-taking. However, nothing substitutes good sex, am I right or am I right?

If you want to improve your sex-life a little bit, what about a passionate chocolate fondue, striptease, tantric sex or romantic holidays with your partner? Of course, there is no more sensual destiny other than Italy. The country of ‘Ti voglio bene’ (I really like you) doesn’t only sound tempting, but it can also pamper you with an incredible state of trance. Rent the economic and comfortable apartments in Milan and discover its erotic secrets.