I think Valentine's Day should be a national holiday in the United States. Not one of those fake holidays like Columbus Day, either, but a holiday where people who don't work for the government or a bank actually get to have a day off from work.
Once that gets taken care of, then comes the question of what
sort of holiday Valentine's Day should be. Should there be parades and fireworks like on the 4th of July? Should there be big extended-family gatherings with lots of food like on Thanksgiving? Should there be lots of praying and groupthink like on Christmas?
No, none of these are quite right. Valentine's Day has always been dedicated to romantic love, and since the primary purpose of romantic love is obviously to trick people into believing that they are meant for each other and should therefore have sex (preferably getting swept away in the thrill of the moment so any form of birth control is conveniently forgotten), it stands to reason that the Valentine's Day holiday should be dedicated to fucking.
Yes, that seems like an excellent idea. In fact, since each of the other major holidays has some sort of traditional structure associated with it, I'll go so far as to suggest a structural outline for Valentine's Day. It goes something like this: Get up, fuck, shower, fuck, eat breakfast, fuck, and so on. The objective is to devote the majority of the day to sex. I'd also suggest that, to help facilitate that goal, clothing should be prohibited--except most of the United States is in the midst of winter on February 14th, so that would kind of pose a problem. To make up for it, I'd suggest massive, indoor, totally nude sexathons, complete with prostitutes provided for those who don't have partners of their own, or even for those who do. Obviously, the prostitutes would be paid for with taxpayer dollars, preferably by a new tax to be instituted on churches that protest against the new holiday, or that don't meet some minimal standard of aesthetic worthiness (
this one here would be a perfect example).
Yeah, that ought to just about cover it.