stackyFACTSThe traditional springtime dance around a wooden pole was deemed sexually suggestive by 17th-century fundamentalists. They violently chopped down the Maypoles and outlawed the dancing, terrified that ribbons and pleasant spring weather were direct gateways to immediate, catastrophic moral collapse.
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