Kiss-a-thon not just a kiss
2001-03-01 09:25
Nassau, Bahamas - A Bahamian Anglican priest has criticised a radio and television kiss-a-thon as an event that negated the true value of romance, a Nassau newspaper reported.
The Nassau Guardian on Monday quoted the Reverend Sebastian Campbell as saying the kiss-a-thon, promoted by ZNS radio and
television and contested by several dozen newlyweds who hoped
to win a car, subjected thousands of people who attended the
event to "slurps, saliva and sweat".
"It has dehumanised our young married couples, reducing them to slaves for material gain at any cost, belittling them to slurpers and dribblers," the paper quoted Campbell, the rector of All Saints Parish, as saying.
Campbell suggested the organisers owed Bahamians an apology, saying it was a shame that kissing and sex had become a spectator sport in the Bahamas, an island nation of some 290 000 people in the Atlantic Ocean north of the Caribbean.
- Reuters