Valentine Lust

Note: This is a Re-post from February 13, 2011 because so many people linked to it and enjoyed the post I saved it when I deleted my blog last year.

Valentine Lust

Valentine Lust

A strange holiday indeed.
For me it is a reason for romance, love, lust, and the color red.
I like a holiday that is about saying “I love you.”
I like a holiday that says “We are going to have great sex tonight.”
I like a holiday that makes a tradition of eating chocolates without guilt.
I like a holiday with red wine and roses.
Valentine’s Day is the shit!

From Wikipedia.org
Saint Valentine’s Day, commonly shortened to Valentine’s Day, is an annual commemoration held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions.

Oh the poems…
She bath’d with roses red, and violets blew,
And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew
From Edmund Spenser’s – The Faerie Queene (1590)

The rose is red, the violet’s blue
The honey’s sweet, and so are you
Thou are my love and I am thine
I drew thee to my Valentine
The lot was cast and then I drew
And Fortune said it shou’d be you.
English nursery rhymes Gammer Gurton’s Garland (1784)

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet;
And so are you.
The modern version every child knows (current)

lust
n.
1. Intense or unrestrained sexual craving.
2.
a. An overwhelming desire or craving: a lust for power.
b. Intense eagerness or enthusiasm: a lust for life.
3. Obsolete Pleasure; relish.
intr.v. lust·ed, lust·ing, lusts
To have an intense or obsessive desire, especially one that is sexual.

val·en·tine
n.
1.
a. A sentimental or humorous greeting card sent to a sweetheart, friend, or family member, for example, on Saint Valentine’s Day.
b. A gift sent as a token of love to one’s sweetheart on Saint Valentine’s Day.
2. A person singled out especially as one’s sweetheart on Saint Valentine’s Day.

From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.

Word History:
Lovers and the greeting card industry may have Geoffrey Chaucer to thank for the holiday that warms the coldest month. Although reference books abound with mentions of Roman festivals from which Valentine’s Day may derive, Jack B. Oruch has shown that no evidence supports these connections and that Chaucer was probably the first to link the saint’s day with the custom of choosing sweethearts. No such link has been found before the writings of Chaucer and several literary contemporaries who also mention it, but after them the association becomes widespread. It seems likely that Chaucer, the most imaginative of the group, invented it. The fullest and perhaps earliest description of the Valentine’s Day tradition occurs in Chaucer’s Parlement of Foules, composed around 1380, which takes place “on Seynt Valentynes day,/Whan every foul cometh there to chese [choose] his make [mate].”

Val·en·tine (vălˈən-tīnˌ), Saint fl. third century A.D.
Roman Christian who according to tradition was martyred during the persecution of Christians by Emperor Claudius II. Saint Valentine’s Day was primarily celebrated in his honor, but was also inspired by another martyr named Valentine, who was bishop of Terni, a region in central Italy.

Is it about love or lust?
Is it about both?
Or is it about greeting cards and chocolates?
Do you love getting roses?
Do you enjoy giving them?
Or is it all a bah-humbug?
What is this day to you?

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