Today, the word orgies has a purely sexual connotation, but…It comes from the word komos and was used to describe the festivals of Bacchus where the participants took part in a nocturnal and riotous procession of half-drunken and frolicsome. Fellows who paraded through the streets with torches and music and sang and played before the houses of their male or female friends. It was the drinking parties that were protracted into the late night with loud and boisterous merry making. Sound familiar?

–Mike Owens