Oh my word. Who SAYS Valentines Day was created by Hallmark and FTD? If only I had known the truth all these years, I might have been celebrating Valentines Day after all!

Someone just sent me a link to the real history of VDay. Here are some excerpts:

The original, that is. Before it was called Valentine’s Day, back when it was called Lupercalia, a big Roman festival in honor of the fertility god Lupercus, before the ever-scowlin’ church got a hold of this ancient and rather odd and blood-pumped Roman lust-fest, co-opted it and de-sexed it stripped it of its more salacious and admittedly libertine joys, as the church is so tragically wont to do.

and then…

Then came the sex lottery. Oh yes. Say it like you mean it. Pretty much only have to say the words, “sex lottery,” and already you’re like, damn, count me in, sure beats dinner and a movie.

and a last tidbit…

Which is exactly as it should be. Which is exactly how we still, without even realizing it, manage to recall our delicious Lupercalia, take a big lick of ye olde pagan ways, regardless of everpresent churchly frowning and ‘Be Mine’ twittering and chubby Cupid chinz. Deep earthly sex and hoary gods and fertile lust and voluminous feasts of meat and wine? You’re soaking in it.

Peaked your interest, huh? I didn’t even excerpt the best parts! Well, here’s the whole thing. You gotta read it. (Except you ~T~. You don’t read it for another 4 or 5 years, k? Thanks.)