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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4050812" data-attributes="member: 4937">Well, they are fundamentally elves, and an elf in Tolkien says that elves would rather listen to poetry than eat.I'd would imagine elvish debauchery involves alot of Goliardic poetry, possibly satirizing thier own society and elders in a way that would be forbidden otherwise.  'Loth' as the object of satire would be about as forbidden and shocking of a fruit as you'd find in the repressive Drow culture.  Through in a bit of Cutullus like ribald humor, the elf version of a dirty limmerick.  There would also be alot of ribald drinking songs and stories, done and performed well, think Carmina Burana or the Satryicon.  I think you'd see alot of performance peices, probably relaxing the normal tense feelings of inability to trust anyone else that would prevent you from having bodily contact with anyone or from being helpless near anyone.  For example using narcotics would normally be suicidal.  Activities like body painting, bathing, hair styling, shaving, tattooing, or even eating would be something you couldn't normally do in public, much less near strangers.  And of course, the really scary part of these things, and maybe the real fear would be part of the spice, is that you couldn't always trust that you would in fact be safe.  Someone might put poison in the tatoo ink.   Someone might take advantage of your narcotic drug haze to slit your wrists.</blockquote>