# Why don't we have this holiday?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 11, 2005, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-have-this-holiday/303307 "2005-05-11T00:36:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-have-this-holiday/303307/1 "2005-05-11T00:36:19Z")
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/brazil\_orgasm\_day](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/brazil_orgasm_day) > [@](#): > > “We’re celebrating orgasm in all its senses. There’s even a panel discussion on premature ejaculation. But from what I’ve seen, women have more trouble achieving orgasm than men, especially in marriage,” Santolia said by telephone from Esperantina, 1,300 miles north of Rio de Janeiro. Here we are moving towards the dark ages and other countries are becoming enlightened. ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-have-this-holiday/303307/2 "2005-05-11T01:32:33Z")
You have to have a special day to celebrate orgasms? 😕 Every day should be Orgasm Day! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-have-this-holiday/303307/3 "2005-05-11T01:35:17Z")
> [@MagicEyes](#): > > You have to have a special day to celebrate orgasms? 😕 > > Every day should be Orgasm Day! The only problem with that is that I was told, repeatedly, by my parents that “every day is Children’s Day”. And when every day is Children’s Day _and_ Orgasm Day it just gets kind of oogy, even if you can’t have one without the other. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-have-this-holiday/303307/4 "2005-05-11T02:04:20Z")
The reason we don’t have this holiday is because Og hates us. ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-have-this-holiday/303307/5 "2005-05-11T03:14:14Z")
Of course, if we did have this holiday, you probably wouldn’t get a day off from work to celebrate it. Just an extra 15 minute break. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-have-this-holiday/303307/6 "2005-05-11T03:46:26Z")
You need to join forces with one Dr. Roger Libby, who has been agitating for a “National Sex/Orgasm _Week_” for quite some time now. [http://www.drrogerlibby.com/askdoc.html](http://www.drrogerlibby.com/askdoc.html) ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-have-this-holiday/303307/7 "2005-05-11T03:46:37Z")
> [@Rhubarb](#): > > Of course, if we did have this holiday, you probably wouldn’t get a day off from work to celebrate it. Just an extra 15 minute break. 😃 This brings up the old joke about getting fired for sticking one’s finger into the pickle slicer. (Ron White tells this joke in one of the Blue Collar Comedy Tours if you’ve not a clue what I’m talking about.) ---
**Author:** ![TheInterruptingCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9c0ed/32.png) [@TheInterruptingCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInterruptingCow)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-have-this-holiday/303307/8 "2005-05-11T04:02:57Z")
> [@MagicEyes](#): > > You have to have a special day to celebrate orgasms? 😕 > > Every day should be Orgasm Day! You mean it’s NOT? Am I violating any local ordinances? I mean, there’s no parade or anything… ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-have-this-holiday/303307/9 "2005-05-11T06:58:29Z")
> [@Rhubarb](#): > > Of course, if we did have this holiday, you probably wouldn’t get a day off from work to celebrate it. Just an extra 15 minute break. 😃 Or a full half hour if you’re female. But you guys can go back to work…we’ll manage without you…we always have 😛 . ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-have-this-holiday/303307/10 "2005-05-11T14:14:00Z")
> [@The King of Soup](#): > > You need to join forces with one Dr. Roger Libby, who has been agitating for a “National Sex/Orgasm _Week_” for quite some time now. > > [http://www.drrogerlibby.com/askdoc.html](http://www.drrogerlibby.com/askdoc.html) Can we just call him Dr. Roger? That seems appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-have-this-holiday/303307/11 "2005-05-11T16:26:35Z")
The article says > [@](#): > > Espertantina Mayor Felipe Santolia endorsed the May 9 holiday, which he said was intended to improve **relationships between married couples** In the interest of parity and equality, are they going to create a holiday for all the single people out there? _Choke-the-Chicken Day_, for instance?