Halloween

Halloween

What is Halloween? Halloween, or All Hallows Eve, is a secondary holiday celebrated around the world on October 31st, and has its origins in Pagan festivals celebrating harvest time and honoring the dead. Halloween activities often include decorating the home and workplace with orange and black themes, as well as witches, goblins, monsters, fake skeletons, and other scary mascots. Typical Halloween festivities involve carving jack-o-lanterns, visiting haunted houses, telling scary stories and watching horror movies, attending costume parties, and of course, trick-or-treating, where children and young people dress up in costumes and go door-to-door to receive candy or treats. Some cultures still celebrate Halloween by playing pranks, although tricks such as soaping windows and leaving burning refuse on porches is largely a thing of the past in the United States. While once a holiday celebrated largely only by children, Halloween continues to gain popularity amongst adults. More and more adults now engage in throwing elaborate Halloween parties, lavishing their surroundings with festive decorations ranging from carved pumpkins in the foyer to full-scale haunted scenes in the front yard. Adults also seem to revel in dressing up in costumes, and may sometimes even use Halloween as a month-long excuse to engage in dressing up in a variety of costumes and outlandish outfits. These costumes are often sexual in nature, such as a dominatrix, slutty nurse, or perverted Little Red Riding Hood. Halloween is also becoming more of a fetish niche, where people get sexually aroused by certain costumes and engage in sexual activity while wearing them