Valentines a day of pain or love

Valentines Day is one of many Christian holidays shrouded in mystery.
Saint Valentine was a priest that married young men against the wishes of the
emperor.  In return, the emperor had him beheaded. 
I cannot resist talk about loosing your head over love.  lol.  That is one of the
accepted forms, but not founded.  Throughout history, there were three Saint
Valentines.  Number 1, the Emperor's victim; #2, a priest that helped Christians
escape from roman prisons, and #3, a bishop who (while imprisoned) professed his
undying love for a young girl.  Needless to say, they all met the same fate of
beheading.

Christians are fond of taking over pagan festival days.  I would guess that there
is some pagan festival being celebrated around this time, which included worship,
some debauchery and a lot of drinking. Sounds a little more palatable to me -- at
least they all kept their heads.

Now to modern times and the massacre which made great news.   However, it was just 
one scum trying to wipe out another. Scum  -- now there is a reason to send flowers,
but definitely not chocolates. I know the Romans like to feast, but not during
executions.  The only one (to my knowledge) was Vlad the Impaler. I highly doubt it
was chocolate he feasted upon.

Now let's get to the icon of all of this. That this holiday has all been taken over
by greeting card companies and Cupid, the Roman god of love. I suppose he had little
influence on the Roman emperors. Why is he naked and very pink?  

Here is my answer to that very question: Cupid ran in to Medusa, the Greek semi
goddess.  She was a bondage freak and rumor had it, a bit into bestiality
(but that is a topic for zoo day).  She scened with Cupid before loosing her head
(hmmm, loosing heads seems to be a theme here), tanned his ass really well and that
is why he is so pink. Now the story does not end there.  It seems he was a bit of a
switch and into piercing. That explains the bow and arrow.  Now in case you did not
know, he was also bisexual and it is rumored that he and Zeus had a thing going on,
and Cupid had a thing for electrical play.

Now my point is, it seems that this should not be a day of flowers and
chocolate and sweet gifts.  It would however appear that a lot more violence and
intense BDSM play has inspired this vanilla event. It occurred to me that
the name of the day should be changed perhaps to "lifestyle love day". We
could have legal right to do so, since the lifestyle has given reason for
this.  Some have come up with the name of "Cloud's day of debauchery and torture".
I think that has a ring to it, but I am too humble to accept the honour. However,
I do think that we must put our collective minds together and come up with a name
for the day and ideas for gifts . We only have a year to effect change and market
the merchandise, before Hallmark or Carleton steal this idea and start
selling heart shaped smackers and cards that play the screams of subs
enjoying the gifts of their Masters.  What do you think?