Out Takes and Trivia #1

As a general rule we have tried to make our commentary or blog bear some resemblance to the photo presented (or vice versa). But rules are there to be broken so we thought we might torment you with some trivia, of which you probably have no interest, and which have absolutely no bearing on our photos. And to add insult to injury some of the photos will be ones that never made it to the shoots previously shown here or at the forums with no photoshopping. But hey, have you seen the crap people share on Facebook - we'll say no more.

The Olympics seem to be topical at the moment so we will start with that ............. read on

Originally the Olympics were more of a series of religious festival with lots of Sex rather than a celebration of sport - unless you count sex as a sport . Oh yes, spouses and mothers were not allowed to attend but prostitutes, girlfriends and young boys (the Greeks were happily bisexual) were most welcome. Many days of ritual and canoodling were enjoyed - after all Zeus had a reputation to uphold - while only a couple of days of 'sport' (sex excepted) was engaged in. Participants were naked and a great deal of olive oil was available. Our guess is that the 'sport' was to show prowess and to the winners went the best boy or girl and the olive oil - well we call that 'lube', and lots of it LOL.

Of course trust the christians to ruin the fun and have the Olympics banned in 394 AD as part of the campaign to impose Christianity as the state religion of Rome.

The founder of the modern Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin, wanted some semblance of that 'inner soul' (our words) or essence of the ancient Olympics to be recaptured and thus Architecture, Literature, Music, Painting, Sculpture and Statistics (WTF ) were competitions included. Still too dangerous for the religious cultures apparently and they were soon abandoned. Under the pseudonyms of Georges Hohrod and Martin Eschbach Pierre won a gold medal in the literature category in the 1912 Summer Olympics - so up yours Usain Bolt.

One thing that has not changed is that the Olympic Games are still a Sexfest. 150,000 condoms were supplied to the London Olympic Village - enough for every athelete to have sex 15 times over the three weeks of the Games. 100,000 were supplied at the Beijing Olympics, apparently they were 50,000 short. 

Congratulations to Team GB and all participants in the 2012 Games - don't you just love the Rhythmic Gymnastics, fantastic.

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