A closer look at the greenery responsible for sleazy dudes scoring winter kisses and 18th-century wives getting to smooch someone other than their husbands.
by comparing it to a Christmas tradition. Others laughed, asking things along the lines of, “Are people having sex under mistletoe now?” While some thought the department was being “preachy” and “condescending” by insinuating that people who find themselves under mistletoe wouldn’t know any better than to ask for consent.
Haters will never pass up an opportunity to finger-wag, but the police department was actually more justified than anyone could have imagined. These days, mistletoe is part of the fabric of the holiday season—but there’s no harm in pulling at those strings to see what might unfurl.
It was always assumed that women had the right to refuse, but there was some moral pressure to comply.And as the greenery became more common, the servants working in these London homes chose to have a little fun with it. “The custom of kissing underneath it begins among servants,” Hutton explained. “When the people who have servants in the houses found out they were doing this very sportingly, instead of forbidding them, they took up the custom themselves.
As Hutton suggested, kissing under the mistletoe began as a sort of game—something a group can do in high spirits, another way of spreading Christmas cheerBut like most things that start in good fun, the outcomes weren’t always the same for everyone. In Dickens’ wildly popular, which was published in monthly installments in the mid-1830s, he paints a pretty damning picture of how the excitement of mistletoe depended on your gender.
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