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Winter Solstice is the ancient winter festival, celebrated to mark the birth of the new Solar year and the beginning of winter. |
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In early winter rituals, the broom - a pole shoved in a bush - reminded folks of sex and was used in dances around the bonfire. |
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The ancients believed that holiday sex at festivals like Carnaval, Dionysius, Sun Birth Day and Saturnalia encouraged crops to grow and productivity to increase. Perhaps there was some truth there... |
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According to ancient Chinese tradition, mid-winter was the ideal time for weddings, as the child would ideally be born in summer. |
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The Yule Log tradition is from Scandinavia, where the pagan sex and fertility god Jul, or Jule (pronounced "Yule"), was honored in a twelve-day celebration in December. |
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A large, single log (generally considered to have been a phallic idol) was kept with a fire against it for twelve days. |
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The Mistletoe, popular in the west during Xmas, was believed to have magical properties. It was believed that if held over a woman's head, she would become powerless to resist, and her man could then have his way with her sexually. |
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This is the origin of the custom of hanging the Mistletoe over doorways, and the tradition that if a girl is caught under a sprig of mistletoe she may be kissed and may not resist. |
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In Judaism, it's still considered a "mitzvah" (a good deed) to have sex with your spouse on most holidays. |
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Even today more babies are conceived on New Year's Eve than any other night of the year! |
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