Lewd Wedding Songs
The 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..
Posted: September 26th, 2006 under Damek, Literature, Tech.
Comments
Comment from Adam
Time Friday, September 29, 2006 at 2:05 pm
I think most modern industrialized cultures practice serial monogomy, in the form of marriage and divorce cycles. It’s just frowned upon for some reason. And there’s no areligious informal sort of event to mark the joining of two people - just weddings and receptions. And then divorce proceedings. People might last longer together if we didn’t put so much weight on the idea that they’re supposed to last forever in bliss.
Next time I get married I’m just going to have the reception part of the equation. At a pub.
Comment from dank
Time Friday, September 29, 2006 at 11:12 am
well, there are cultures which have had serial monogomy like that, haven’t they? how did they celebrate?