So girls, is anyone planning on dancing around the May Pole today?

[Debi]

:evilgrin:


Happy May Day :hi:

[SPKrazy]

1. I wanna watch!

:evilgrin:

may pole dancers that is!

:hi:

[Debi]

4. I don't think Mr. Debi would go for that

He's pretty private about his May Pole. :blush:

OMG I can't believe I just typed that...

[SPKrazy]

8. Well that wasn't what I was thinking of

but hey, now you've brought it up (:blush: now I've just said something I can't believe :rofl:)

[Debi]

10. well, we're even

:spank:

[SPKrazy]

11. ...

:rofl:


:evilgrin:

[LostinVA]

2. The Maypole is soooo pevy

[taterguy]

3. Pevy? What the hell is pevy?

[LostinVA]

16. PERVY

Oh god... my typing is insane today.

[taterguy]

17. Are you typing one-handed?

I thought only pevy men did that

[LostinVA]

23. I was actually eating yogurt and typing

You pevy Tarheel you.

[taterguy]

24. Eating yogurt is a euphemism I've never heard

Ya learn something new every day.

[LostinVA]

25. That's what lesbians call it, you pev

[taterguy]

26. What the hell is "it"?

I'm doing a Google search for that word and it's not helping

[LostinVA]

27. You're a Carolina boy, you should know these things

[taterguy]

28. You'd be astounded at what boys don't know

Or maybe not

[Debi]

5. Is NOT

Whatever the hell pevy is :eyes: :rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

6. That, my friend, is nunya!

:rofl:

[Debi]

12. I guess I know the answer then

:P

[NewWaveChick1981]

7. I remember dancing around the May Pole in kindergarten...

:rofl: Really. I think after everyone figured out how totally phallic it is they stopped. :P But I'll dance around the May Pole anytime. :evilgrin: :P

[SPKrazy]

9. Cooooool!

I'll be the May pole :rofl:

[Debi]

13. Woo Hoo

:woohoo: May Pole dancing tonight it is!!! :woohoo:

[FloridaJudy]

14. Happy Beltane, y'all!

I also remember May Poles from elementary school. Perhaps that was a more innocent time, because I haven't seen one outside of Pagan circles since.

[CottonBear]

15. I danced around one at the May Day debutante event at my private girls school back in the 1970s.

The local boys prep schools held an alternative May Day event called the May Hole: they danced a round a pole stuck in a hole in the ground.
:blush:
I was such an innocent young prep school girl that I didn't realize at first that the May Pole was so phallic. Of the six grades (7th - 12th), only sophmores danced around the poles (about 10 of them set up on a big lawn.)

[Debi]

20. The May Hole???

:blush: Oh MY!!!!

[CottonBear]

22. "Oh my" is right! LOL! I was so naive when I was a young teenager. n/t

[kwassa]

18. It is a yearly tradition at Bryn Mawr College

[Yavin4]

19. SEX THREAD!!! SEX THREAD!!!!

But seriously, what's supposed to be the point of the May pole?

[Debi]

21. What???? where?????

:yoiks:


http://healing.about.com/b/a/257544.htm

[otherlander]

29. To praise Freyr, of course!

[LostinVA]

30. It's a huge phallus

Seriously.

[conscious evolution]

31. I've heard two stories

One is,like so many upthread have pointed out,that it is an ancient fertility dance.
The other story I've heard is that it is an ancient astronomical tradition.It is a combination of timekeeper and map of the heavens.Each ribbon was tied to a rock in a way that left it lined up with celestial bodies.The wrapping part came when the astronomers,apparently mainly women,in the originating culture were securing their tools of the trade till they were needed again.Sorta how present day astronomers put up their telescopes for the day now.
At some point it obviously evolved into a celebration.
I think one of the reasons it fell out of vogue is because of the fact that May Day is associated with communism in many peoples eyes.I'm sure the rise of the religous right had something to do with it also.