Expatbrit,
My conjugal exploits at conventions were limited to making eye contact seven times with the same young sister as we walked clockwise around the stadium in a group. (The sisters walked anti-clockwise. It was traditional.)The tradition of walking in opposing circles around a central focus is a vestige of pagan rites in honor of Maya or Maia, the Virgin Goddess of Spring. May was the traditional month of "wearing of the green" in honor of the Earth Mother's new garment, and of fornicating in plowed fields to encourage the crops. May was a "honey-moon" of sexual freedom throughout rural Europe up to the 16th century. Marriage bonds were temporarily in abeyance.
May Eve was the great springtime festival of "witches," (not to be confused with "white trash bitches"), corresponding to Halloween at the opposite pole of the year. May Eve was known in Germany as Walpurgisnacht, in Ireland and Scotland as Beltaine or Baltein, when the god Baal, Bel, or Balder was burned in effigy.
The god's phallus was planted in the earth's womb in the guise of the Maypole, which was not originally European but a direct borrowing from India where the Maypole is still "the great lingam."
All true Christians should avoid this activity of such obvious pagan origin.
Ginny