Hah, I never thought of that before..

It all depends on what you do to celebrate the season. :-)

Nope! I think its awesome. I wouldn't buy porn or a vibrator for anyone but myself, but some people go in for that. I do think that people put too much emphasis on the material aspects of the holiday. It isn't even a religious thing for me, I think holidays are about family.

the religious holiday idea has been lost for a long, long time, and it had nothing to do with adult video stores. they're just cashing in on another materialistic holiday. nothin wrong with that.

But is the "religious holiday" any more normal in the mall?

I guess it is nice and festive afterall I don't think kinky sex is mentioned as a "Thou shalt not..." in the bible ;-P

Christmas is pretty secular. I wouldn't get that weirded out until the sex shop starts putting up Easter decorations.

Yeah, basically nobody thinks that Christmas is a religious holiday except creepy people who tend to think that everything is about religion. There's a group of people that think that it's about family or some other nonsense and have some sort of huge hate-on about the material aspects of it and then there's me who only celebrates it as a material holiday having either no interest or active antipathy for both family and religion.

It's also how I grew up. We never saw extended family for any holiday and holidays were never religious. Getting gifts is all I've ever known for Christmas. It's like my birthday, but it comes about four months later. If it was any different I probably wouldn't like it.

I am also disturbed by the lack of "religious holiday" part - and I'm not even christian any more!

but I do tend to be rather literal and such. My partner has never celebrated xmas as a religious holiday, and had no idea why I wanted to do a yule or new years or something else instead. so we have secular christmas, and I try to at least expose the kids to the christian mythology that started it.

Except it isn't a religious holiday, it's a celebration of the Winter Soltice that has been celebrated for thousands of years before Christianity.

Christians Co-Opted the festival because it was popular.

Simon