HONEYMOON

Everyone knows what happens right after a wedding: the honeymoon! And everyone know what that means: sex.

The origins of the term honeymoon are debated. Some say the term comes from an old northern European custom in which the guests and relatives would give to the newlyweds enough mead to consume for their first month. (Mead being a dietary staple in the middle ages and a brew made from honey.)

Others claim that the word honeymoon is actually a vulgarization of the Norse word hjunottsmanathr. After kidnapping one's bride, she was kept hidden away until pregnant or her family stopped looking for her, which they say, lasted usually about a month.

The first literary reference to the word honeymoon was in 1552 in Richard Huloet's Abecedarium Anglico Latinum. It held that the word honeymoon “was a sardonic reference to the inevitable waning of love like a phase of the moon.”

The English poet Samuel Johnson wrote of first month after marriage, "when there is nothing but tenderness and pleasure." 

Here is the image every new husband wants to see. Here is the image each of his groomsmen secretly imagined. There is somethign extra sexy about a woman who is transitioning from the informal status of girlfriend to the "off limits" status of wife. On the day of her wedding, she is the center of attention--the woman all the other women want to be, and the woman all the men want to be with.