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There are three levels of the Salsa Fix:

• Fix Level One: Listening to Salsa Music – Mental and spiritual satisfaction.
  
  
• Fix Level Two: Dancing Solo to Salsa Music – Mental and semi-physical and spiritual satisfaction. Takes longer to be satisfied physically. Getting your fix may require more than just one song.
  
  
• Fix Level Three: Partner Dancing to Salsa Music – Complete mental, complete physical, AND complete spiritual satisfaction. Fix can be found with one song.  Fix is magnified by each other's energy, and multiplied by several orders of magnitude.  Starts and feeds the Salsa Addiction phase. 

I found that more than anything else, I crave Fix Level Three, which is when two people are dancing as one together. The satisfaction of touching someone, holding their hands, and synchronizing in harmony with the music is richly amplified. Depending on the partner, the "Fix" feeling is multiplied, by several orders of magnitude.

Hence, the reason why we created the Salsaweb Cityguides section. In the beginning, I worked on it for strictly selfish reasons. I wanted to get my Fix when I had to travel out of town, and was tired of not finding any clubs! Now, Salsaweb Magazine has the most comprehensive Latin Club guide the world has ever known.

The feeling of "The Fix Level Three" is similar to making love – definitely more fun "with" someone, than by yourself. Normally, you won’t recognize the "orgasm" of that energy until the song is over, when you’re breathing heavily, and panting together, and for a brief second, stare into each other’s eyes, smile, and simply say "Thank you". Then, when you release from each other’s arms, the continual energy from that dance is still with you. You say to yourself, "Wow! That was INCREDIBLE!" You then look over to see who this person was you just danced with, and make a mental note to be sure and ask them to dance again.

For those of us that know, we’ve experienced that feeling, many times, and I’ve often heard people saying,

• "Now THAT was BETTER than SEX."
• "Nothing is better than this."
• "I’m not going to be able to top that tonight. I got my Fix. I can go home now."
• "My god. This IS cocaine."
• "How can I face my boyfriend/girlfriend after THAT?"

When this happens, I try as often as possible to tell the person I just danced with, "Wow! I just got my Fix with you!" They usually can’t hear me, or they say, "What?"

Oh brother.

One time I said that to a guy, and he proceeded to blush, and replied, "I did? WWWOOOWWW!!! I gave the FREAK her FIX? Well….. I just don’t know what to say… I’m … I’m HONORED!"