February 14, 2023

HAPPY VALENTINE DAY ...

Today is Valentine's Day.
But what does this story of Valentin have to do with the libertine world?
We will easily agree that it is not because one (or more) libertine and one (or more) libertine spend the evening together that necessarily the oboes will sound and the trumpets will sound to accompany them to the altar!
Love is certainly a noble feeling, but it is not necessarily Cupid who presides over our mysteries...!
This festival dates back to a time when the church, with growing power, strong in its morals and convictions, wanted to oppose pagan rites. She invented a commemoration of a certain Valentin de Terni, beheaded, then canonized for having secretly celebrated Catholic marriages, the date of which she fixed, in order to reduce them to silence, on the eve of the abominable Lupercalia, during which the Romans and the Romans engaged in fertility rituals. No luck, far from being bothered by it, they seized it, made it a libertine evening before the hour, with an atmosphere of which we would not even dare to dream, and Pope Gelasius 1st returned to his flock with his tail down.*
Later, this date will be the occasion for festivities and banquets during which couples are drawn and form for one night.
 
Over time, the party quietens down and becomes more commercial. Romanticism is the dream of the young girl who wants glitter in her life and sells more than sex games. Now we talk about love, couples, we offer roses bought a fortune to a guy, who, by his look, weighs on you all the shame of the earth if you do not buy him his damn flower for offer it to the one who accompanies you, while single people mope around and shut themselves up at home with a bottle of whiskey or three bars of chocolate while waiting for the date that characterizes their infamy to pass, or else indulge in excessive debauchery that makes young flower girls blush with desire and envy those who offer them.
Let's not forget that this brave Valentin, if he is today the patron saint of lovers, 1500 years earlier presided over orgiastic evenings that any good libertine can only consider with interest.
It is therefore in all sincerity that the entire Ka project team joins me in wishing you a very happy Valentine's Day. Let the perspiring bodies become tangled, let the pelvis arch, let the mouths be gluttonous, let the groans rise, let the fluids flow out in warm jerks, and let the ancient rites be celebrated all over the world 😉 . Happy birthday friends! and long live the libertine spirit.