Beloved’s!
Happy Lupercalia, the pagan holiday of nudity, animal sacrifices, and sexual rites!
(Originally, Lupercalia was a night of random sexual pairings; ostensibly, it was a poet who first linked the day to romance—Geoffrey Chaucer in his poem The Parlement of Foules. Apparently, this happened more or less by chance—Valentine’s Day is approximately t…
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