Lewd Wedding Songs
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006The world needs more lewd wedding songs. (An observation elicited by a random sentence in the middle of Spin, another great book from Robert Charles Wilson. Really good.)
Related to that, the world needs some sort of new tradition (distinct from a wedding) to celebrate the intentions of a pair of people to share their lives for a while. No air of permanence needed, no air of ownership — just a party to say, “A and B are together now and we think that’s great!” A way to preserve the community-knitting, celebratory aspects of weddings while shedding the negative hangups. Not just a reception; something to replace marriage in the way that a drunken wake can replace a funeral. Full of ribaldry and hope. And it needs a name, a place in culture..
