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Kiss a Sleeping Princess
- lutusp 14y agoA quote from the article: "Five young Ukrainian women, dressed in white wedding gowns, take turns sleeping on display in the museum for a couple of hours every day. Based on the fairytale 'Sleeping Beauty', the idea of the art-exhibition is for visitors to look at a sleeping girl, and, if they feel the urge, kiss her on the lips. If a sleeping beauty opens up her eyes she’s obliged by a legal contract to marry the man. [...] Male visitors, before kissing a sleeping beauty [...] sign a similar agreement: 'If I kiss the beauty, and she opens her eyes, I agree to marry her'" This is completely nuts. Even people who invest the time to get to know each other don't stay married for very long. This replaces the dreadful compulsory marriage tradition of bygone generations and replaces it with a kind of lottery -- and, I might add, a lottery controlled by men (the men do the kissing/choosing). Only the most desperate young women would sign up for this bizarre ritual, and only the most insecure men would take part. Marriage isn't about the first kiss -- it's about how one deals with an unbalanced checkbook. It's not the first that seals the marriage contract, but the second.