I blame Jesus.
Important Research from Across the Pond !
Nearly six out of 10 (59%) men and women in the poll admitted they were less likely to have sex at this time of year because they would have consumed too much food or drink.
The research by sex shop chain Ann Summers also found couples were less likely to get intimate over the festive season than at any other time of year because of stress, rows or fatigue.
Despite Yuletide’s romantic tradition of kissing under the mistletoe, seven out of 10 men said the amount of sex they had over the month of December dropped to an annual low.
And 90% of women said their sexual appetite plunged throughout the festive holiday due to the stress of buying and wrapping presents, not to mention preparing the Christmas dinner.
Meanwhile, the presence of visiting relatives in the house was likely to further inhibit couples’ sex drives.
Some 66% of lovers said they avoided having sex during the festive period in case family members heard them.
No matter how you slice it, this is the most ill-conceived of all holidays. Bah Humbug!!!
Well KB, for the handful of people remaining who might actually have thought they had a shot at sex for Christmas, your photo of a fat, drunk, half-naked Santa is bound to kill any remaining desire 😉
Holiday cheers to you (but no sex, dammit).
The other day I was listening to Bill O’Reilly and his “war on Christmas” and I decided that I would like it scrapped as national holiday.
The irony is that I’m a devout Christian. It seems like Christmas has lost all religious meaning, anyway — ending it’s official status might actually save the holiday as a religious observance.
Ugh! My eyes! My eyes!
#3 Greg, you may remember the original war on Christmas. I know I do, but others may not be quite as old. It concerned the commercialization of Christmas, and how the growing theme of buying and receiving ever more expensive presents was obscuring the religious aspects of the holiday that many people thought were much more important.
Well guess what! Corporate America had to open new factories just to make enough white flags for people to signal their surrender in that war. Christmas represents the single greatest buying season of the year by far. Without Christmas, there would actually be a lot of companies that would have to reorganize or go out of business, so important is the holiday selling season.
One has to chuckle at O’Reilly’s rants about the new “War on Chrismas,” and at “The O’Reilly Christmas Store” on his own website. He’s old enough to know better.
It seems like Christmas has lost all religious meaning, anyway — ending it’s official status might actually save the holiday as a religious observance.
T’would be nice if there were a little consistency. I’m in my fifties, and remember how many objections there were to making over Christmas from a religious to ‘secular’ (read: commercial) celebration back in the sixties. For instance, anyone here remember Green Christmas by Stan Freeberg – Angels we have heard on high, telling us to go out and buy!
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Joyous Saturnalia
Happy Mithras’ Birthday
Thats not Christmas, that people with poor priorities. There is always room for Jello and there is always time for sex (Do not combine though)
#7….I have it on good authority that you can definatly combine jello and sex. 🙂
oh…don’t forget the whipped cram(pun fully intended). 🙂
#10…talk about messing up a wet dream…….that should have been ***whipped cream***
My god KB !!! How did you get that picture of me ??? Damn, I thought I had destroyed all the copies. Damn those elves !!!
What’s wrong with celebrating a holiday based on peace and love and family? If Christmas were an entirely religious holiday for everyone,. I think a lot less people would celebrate it. Peace on Earth, Goodwill toward men, and leave the birthday cake to the devout. Trees and gifts and lights and wreaths are all I need this time of year.
i would prefer sex any time over alchol because i do drink and sex is better for you in the long run its better exercise and will help keep you in shape and at this time of the year it even sweeter . over anything you could ever get
So have sex before the eating and drinking. Problem solved.
Mrs. Santa Claus can’t have children because Santa only comes once a year, and that is down the chimney.
I can’t imagine giving up Christmas. I CAN imagine giving up on self-hating lunatics who insist on turning it into an excuse to open the spigots on every vice. Churches are supposed to (and usually do) stress the *solemnity* of the event of Christ’s birth. Instead, the less observant among us stress the pagan aspects of it. That’s why it seems like a lousy holiday.
Instead, let’s save the vices for Thanksgiving – we get two days officially for that, which should give us enough time to recover from the hangovers and indigestion. Discipline, people, it’s all about discipline.
Christmas is the winter solistice in the northern hemisphere. Long nights and short cold days. It’s the time to rejoice, because from here on to Summer solistice days will grow and nights will shorten. For the early farmers of the northern hemisphere it was the time to feast a bit because they could check on their provisions and have a feel for the consumption rate, being halfway into winter… And partying is the best winter depression deterrent.
From that to the consumist orgy of nowdays is a big stretch.
Some history on the celebration of Christmas.
1) Most of today’s customs are rooted in pagan traditions. That includes the trees, celebrating, family reunions, yule log, gift giving, and colorful displays.
2) Until the mid 1800s, the Christmas season was mostly celebrating, drinking to excess, partying with the neighbors, and terrorizing those who wouldn’t join in.
3) There was very little religious aspect to Christmas. On a note of interest, Congress even sat on Christmas day on December 25, 1789. Of more importance were Easter and Thanksgiving. Christmas didn’t even become a holiday until the late 1800s while Thanksgiving was declared a holiday by President Lincoln.
4) Celebrating Christmas was banned in much of New England in Colonial times as well as in England under Oliver Cromwell. Because of the raucous nature of the celebrating.
5) Three men in literature created the traditions we celebrate today in the early 1800s
a) Washington Irving wrote a series of books where the characters celebrated Christmas with fellowship, union, and giving. Totally imaginary, his books introduced us to the giving and family coming together.
b) Clement Moore wrote An Account Of A Visit From St. Nicholas [Twas The Night Before Christmas] which introduced the Santa Claus character. Moore had already claimed St. Nickolas as the Patron Saint of New York.
c) Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol. A hit serial on both sides of the Atlantic, this reinforced the giving and family union we have and introduced by Washington Irving.
6) With the impetus from Irving, Moore, and Dickens, came the wave of German immigrants to America. They brought their old customs of decorating Christmas (winter solstice) trees and the Yule log. They also cooked special meals to celebrate.
7) Some countries open presents on Christmas Eve, so they might worship on Christmas day. Usually though, we wait until Christmas Day to see what Santa brought.
8) Christmas always took a back seat to Easter as the most cherished day on the calender. That has changed during the 20th century where the religious aspect made a return.
9) Stores promoted Christmas for gift giving during the mid 1800s. Many shop owners recognized the commercial benefits.
10) There are many traditions we have consolidated into Christmas. Most have been modified from other European pagan habits. Some have been American inventions. The religious worship part came long afterward Christmas’s commercial popularity became wide spread.
For more information try the History Channel.
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#18, have a Merry Dubai Christmas, Greg. It’s always good to hear from someone who has the religious perspective of someone in the minority. Those in the majority haven’t always handled their position so well.
Thank God I’m not one of the 90% of women whose sexual appetite plunges due to the stress of buying and wrapping presents, and preparing the Christmas dinner. My husband helps me wrap and he cooks the Christmas dinner, so it looks like he is getting lucky. LOL
Gary Marks (#21), Greg Allen is always a good read, as are you.
Rose (#22), it sounds like your husband is a lucky man. 🙂
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6201603.stm
probably from drinking this stuff
Thanks, tallwookie. I may blog this for Christmas day. I mean, how can I not blog something called “Atomic Penis”?
The war on Christmas gets coverage on the beeb.. The War On Christmas from the BBC.
I popped out this evening to take a photo of something that I considered part of teh war on Christmas. In my local town the Menorah candles were lit in the town square but the Christmas tree lights were out and have been out for a week. Of course typical sods law. When I got there the reverse was true. The Menorah lights were out and the Christmas tree lights were on… damn…. they ruined a good story!
(#24) that he is.
(#23) um, ok.