{"id":57227,"date":"2026-01-08T19:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/gairrhydd\/?p=57227"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:23:17","slug":"the-revolt-of-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/gairrhydd\/opinion\/the-revolt-of-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Revolt of Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"57227\" class=\"elementor elementor-57227\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-648d1453 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-eae-slider=\"12619\" data-id=\"648d1453\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1ba747eb\" data-eae-slider=\"82147\" data-id=\"1ba747eb\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6a027574 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6a027574\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By Ivan Bliminse<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The modern soul is plagued by its history of monogamy. All men and women seek to find a pledge of loyalty, presuming that staying with a partner and being all enduring is the \u201conly\u201d or \u201cright\u201d way we should love. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Whether we have learned such castrating moral rulings through our social doctrines, in religion or our institutions, or the overly perpetrated ideas that there is virtue is undermining our wants and desires for others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is clear to me now that the soul must fight to break the surface of these repressions, even if doing so comes at the cost of a relationship held so dear, so to find its space to breathe, if only to save our livelihood. To quote Shakespeare\u2019s Emilia, \u201cLet husbands know their wives have sense like them\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Too long overdrawn is the power of hypocritic wants of our partners. The truth is that people lie all the time, especially when encouraged not to: Fleeting eyes, a faint desiring glow of what could be, the temporary rush delivered in a cloud of unknown perfume.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> These are all exciters of the unknown and inspire all sorts of thoughts is any passional direction. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-16c01b0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-eae-slider=\"21117\" data-id=\"16c01b0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c6c165e\" data-eae-slider=\"21107\" data-id=\"c6c165e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-41b936e elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"41b936e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/gairrhydd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/Remove-background-project-3.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-57228\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/gairrhydd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/Remove-background-project-3.png 756w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/gairrhydd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/Remove-background-project-3-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/gairrhydd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/Remove-background-project-3-68x90.png 68w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ce154b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5ce154b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So, why not act? Why not take a leap of faith into another\u2019s arms? I have lived long enough behind the old barring desires, and this is testament to the period of my ambition awaiting opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Why not let people swing from arm to arm; to bosom; to crotch? The monochromatic colours of orthodox restraints have been painted all over the vigour and passion, seen in every lover and available in abundance to fleeing and changing relationships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Many would claim the hurt feelings of \u201cbetrayed\u201d partners all over the globe, that they have somehow been let down, their expectations disappointed. But if we carried on catering to every expectation of others\u2014chiefly, those that are absurd\u2014then man and woman are left with not much energy for anything else, let alone knowing the passions within oneself. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3be9f22 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-eae-slider=\"67888\" data-id=\"3be9f22\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1abc98c\" data-eae-slider=\"39140\" data-id=\"1abc98c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d41766 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"7d41766\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/gairrhydd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/Edouard_Manet_-_Luncheon_on_the_Grass_-_Google_Art_Project-1080x839.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-57230\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/gairrhydd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/Edouard_Manet_-_Luncheon_on_the_Grass_-_Google_Art_Project-1080x839.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/gairrhydd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/Edouard_Manet_-_Luncheon_on_the_Grass_-_Google_Art_Project-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/gairrhydd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/Edouard_Manet_-_Luncheon_on_the_Grass_-_Google_Art_Project-768x596.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/gairrhydd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/Edouard_Manet_-_Luncheon_on_the_Grass_-_Google_Art_Project-116x90.jpg 116w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/gairrhydd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/Edouard_Manet_-_Luncheon_on_the_Grass_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ed61c4b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ed61c4b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cheating or swinging are not acts of childish indulgence, but rather a process of cathartic self-discovery and fleeing the dead weight of monogamy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> It is not through lack of love that one goes from man to man, woman to woman, but with an abundance of love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> It is that one loves them with the same individual passion each time, a passion that is not the same between any two lovers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One does not receive the love one is looking for at last, but once more. The human is a butterfly, destined to leap from flower to flower, to find one\u2019s exulting desires at every turn. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An expression of the soul\u2019s wants for freedom, a space to breathe, cannot be seen as a sin but only as a revolt for passion. A dream to love all.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c6d32bd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-eae-slider=\"22943\" data-id=\"c6d32bd\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2a0b3c6\" data-eae-slider=\"88810\" data-id=\"2a0b3c6\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ivan Bliminse The modern soul is plagued by its history of monogamy. All men and women seek to find a pledge of loyalty, presuming that staying with a partner and being all enduring is the \u201conly\u201d or \u201cright\u201d way we should love. Whether we have learned such castrating moral rulings through our social doctrines, in religion or our institutions, or the overly perpetrated ideas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/gairrhydd\/opinion\/the-revolt-of-passion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Revolt of Passion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":57230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"default","_threads_share_type":"default","_google_business_share_type":"default","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[8860],"tags":[288,2027,1519,1630],"class_list":["post-57227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cardiff-university","tag-relationship","tag-sex","tag-students"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Revolt of Passion - Gair Rhydd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/gairrhydd\/opinion\/the-revolt-of-passion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Revolt of Passion - Gair Rhydd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Ivan Bliminse The modern soul is plagued by its history of monogamy. 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