Hurray, Hurray, The First Of May
There’s an ancient pair of couplets that goes like this:
“Hurray, hurray!
The first of May!
Outdoor fucking
starts today!”
Noted wordplay expert Willard R. Espy in his book Another Almanac Of Words At Play says this is a modernized version of an older folk verse, thusly:
“Hurray, hurray!
The first Of May!
Hedgerow tupping
starts today!”
But, sadly, hedgerows have fallen almost as far out of fashion as that venerable word “tupping”, which anciently referred to the breeding of sheep, but had already become a synonym for “fucking” by Shakespeare’s time.
In honor of this venerable holiday, I offer some anonymous 20th-century outdoor gay orgy art:
Be sure to click the artwork to embiggen it — something that works more often than most people seem to realize here at ErosBlog.
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Shorter URL for sharing: https://www.erosblog.com/?p=32604
The way some of the ballsacs are stretched make me feel a bit of pain.
Otherwise this is quite a nice paint. I’d like to have it in my living room.
Jonathan Coulton wrote a song commemorating the date:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzZaJDg6E0A
Hmm… is tupping somehow related to tuppence. Two pence –> tuppence ergo two ping? This warrants an etymological deep dive