There is something inherently unsexy about wedding nights for the bride and groom concerned. After an exhausting day of nerves, relatives and quite possibly too much to drink, the last thing you feel like doing is getting up close and personal with the one you’ve just vowed to spend your life with. More likely than bowing to the pressure to perform is throwing up or passing out.
But it is a new low to hear of the Chinese civil servants who did not spend the night of their nuptials making the most of a lovely bed covered with swan-towels, balloons and rose petals. No: instead, they painstakingly copied out the Communist constitution - all 17,000 words of it - by hand, together, as an act of love (and party support).
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