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Kissing booths
by Becky - September 10, 2007 - 6:05 PM

sdflkjKissing booths…They’ve always seemed about as desirable as stocks and pillories. Of course, I understand raising awareness/cash for a worthy cause (e.g. when Kate Moss sold a one-minute, £60,000 kiss to benefit the Hoping Foundation–the man who bought it ceded his kiss to Hugh Grant’s girlfriend; fittingly charitable and salacious). Elsewhere, you’ve got bear-kissing booths (”just a small part of a larger twice-daily presentation about wild bear safety”), pug-kissing booths, and then there’s always the underseen 1988 documentary starring Quentin Crisp, The Kissing Booth. Has anyone ever staffed or patronized one of these booths? If not, what’s the strangest/coolest/most grueling thing you’ve ever done in the name of charity?

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  1. One local charity here that supports Diabetes research holds a yearly dinner where prominent citizens raise money for the “opportunity” to kiss a pig. Pigs were apparently essential to early diabetes research (into insulin possibly?), so the pig is thematically appropriate as well as hilarious to watch pillars of the community kiss.

    posted by Melissa on 9-11-2007 at 12:01 pm

  2. At a gothic renn-faire type of thing, I paid a dollar to smack a girl with a paddle for charity.

    posted by Elsa on 9-11-2007 at 1:56 pm

  3. Back in the early 80s the Ren-Faire in Tuxedo NY had an event called “Drench a Wench”. The object was to throw a wet sponge over your shoulder at a group of attractive young “wenches”. If you hit one she would walk up and give you a big kiss. IIRC you got 3 tries for a dollar. They also had a “Soak a Bloke” for the ladies. Of course this was before HIV was considered a problem for the general population. They also

    posted by Dave on 9-13-2007 at 2:12 pm

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