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Virginity funerals
Great for teens. Let’s turn this milestone in life into a party – a wake for the end of innocence and a toast to the post-pubescent future. Friends of the cherry-poppee would organise a venue and get everyone to bring suggestively shaped chocolate gifts and food-flavoured sex toys. The ex-virgin’s childhood possessions would be ritually destroyed in an alcopop-fuelled frenzy
"— One of David Mitchell’s suggestions of other occasions for gift giving that could stimulate the economy.
