In very very ancient times, before anyone even conjured up Christmas, Hannukkah, Ramadan, Kwanza, mega-malls, catalogs or on-line shopping, before they even invented Wal-Mart, people throughout the world celebrated the cold, dark period surrounding the Winter Solstice with great festivals of fire to chase away the cold, light to chase away the darkness and fun to chase away the blues.
And SEX--lots of sex. To honor the shivery season, our pagan forebears would feast and fornicate for days or even weeks of bacchanalian orgies.Sex, especially holiday sex, represented the erotic fecundity of life in the dead of winter, the vital, vibrant possibility of hope in what otherwise felt like a season of despair.
No comments:
Post a Comment