Even prominent celebrities, such as the members of the Pee (I'm sticking with that one, even if you don't like it) end up dateless on St. Valentine's Day. That's why they decided to celebrate in the old-fashioned way by holding an appropriately ritualized party in honor of Lupercalia. In case you're unfamiliar, Plutarch detailed the rites of Lupercalia by writing the following:
"At this time many of the noble youths and of the magistrates run up and down through the city naked, for sport and laughter striking those they meet with shaggy thongs. And many women of rank also purposely get in their way, and like children at school present their hands to be struck, believing that the pregnant will thus be helped in delivery, and the barren to pregnancy."
Hm, that reads like a huge role-playing orgy. Too bad I wasn't there. It might have been nice to see Alex De Carvalho '09 running around butt-naked and slapping girls with raw animal-hide straps. De Carvalho disappeared with Christos Kaplanis '08 and Rina Onur '09, presumably for a threesome. Or maybe a twosome with one watching (but which one???). Emily Washkowitz '08 eyed the petite blonde jealously. Alex Sloane '08 and Charlie Melvoin '10, both grinning and smeared with goat's blood, were macking hard, but their respective targets, Danielle Sassoon '08 and Daphne Grayson '10 weren't havin' nunnathat (that whole "barren to pregnancy" thing was just ceremony, guys -- pick up lines such as, "I got a goblet-full of love juice for ya right here" are a HUGE turn-off).
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haha my favorite article so far..
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