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orgy

History secret religious rites of Dionysus, Bacchus, etc., marked by drinking, dancing, and songs

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Orgy

(1) A religious rite in the mysteries associated with the cults of many ancient Oriental (Astarte, Isis, Osiris, Cybele, Tammuz), Greek (Orpheus, Dionysus), and Roman gods. Orgies were frequently unruly.

(2) A wild banquet.

What does it mean when you dream about an orgy?

A dream about an orgy suggests repressed desires of the id, desires for expression of one’s sexuality and passion. It indicates the need to be surrounded by the vital forces of life.

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Unluckily, Eric has just talked his closest friends into having a holiday weekend orgy.

A Good Old-Fashioned Orgy

Birmingham Band history: Having only formed in 2008, Morgue Orgy immediately caught the attention and support of the local music community, and not only in the metal scene.

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FOLLOWING repeated cases of political violence in the Ilorin metropolis ahead of coming general elections, the Kwara state government has set up a joint security task force to curb orgy of violence being witnessed in the state capital.

Kwara Sets Up Task Force On Political Violence

Hired to perform at a private sex party -- the first one she properly attended -- that spring, although she had engaged in group intimacy before, she had never seen what a real orgy looked like.

Woman planning world's biggest orgy reveals three rules revellers must follow; Sex party organiser Pearl Derriere, 29, from Denver, USA, is openly polyamorous and lives with boyfriend Dan Patrick, 35, but also visits her "homemaker" girlfriend Tomi Tailey, 30

"The scene is supposed to be a bit of a crazy party on the verge of an orgy - but not quite an orgy.

Can you get into swing of things?

The PS10-a-head orgy took place at Klub Kink, a fetish bar in Dudley, West Mids, near Cadbury's Bourneville HQ.

Cadbury's choc bar on Easter orgy

"He wants to talk about the scandal that happened on the Royal Yacht Britannia, which is where members of the navy were dismissed for being caught up in a gay orgy," Muddle is quoted as saying.

Former Butler Of Princess Diana Denies Gay Orgy Claims

Several participants chose to make their way to the Orgy Dome run by a group called And Then There's Only Love, (https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/1705240/everyone-who-enters-intends-to-have-sex-inside-the-burning-man-festivals-orgy-dome-where-5000-horny-revellers-get-down-and-dirty-every-year/) The Sun  reported Wednesday.

Burning Man 2016 Orgy Dome Practices Revealed

THIS is the bolthole where Prince Andrew is alleged to have slept with an underage girl at an orgy - and where his sex offender pal is thought to be hiding out.

Paedophile's Island of Sin; ROYAL SCANDAL EX DEFENDS PRINCE AFTER 'SEX SLAVE' CLAIM

27 ( ANI ): Former Formula One boss Max Mosley has vowed more legal action against Google for violating his privacy after a German court ordered the internet giant to block photos of him at an orgy.

Ex-F1 boss vows more legal action against Google over privacy threat

ONE of the guests at the VIP orgy has put a picture of himself on a swingers website showing him wearing the uniform of a police armed response unit.

GUNSWINGER COP; THE PEOPLE exposes posh swingers who took over stately home for a night of debauchery

"It's an orgy of vanilla heterophilia, a fantasy of a straight, lily-white America that should have gone the way of the original Star Trek Enterprise."