day eight, story eight, Boccaccio way ahead of his time...again?

Wife swapping. Wow! I wonder how this story went over in the fourteenth century. I think that the important thing to take away from this story is that fact that we now have incontrovertible proof that Boccaccio is the inventor or reality television. Personally, I always knew it was true, but it’s really nice to have proof. I’m sure that now people won’t think I’m some kind of crackpot.

I guess we can probably assume that swingers existed before Boccaccio’s time, so he probably didn’t invent that. But it takes a genius like Boccaccio to come up with the scene that we find in day eight, story eight. Here we have a man locked in a chest, forced to listen quietly while his best friend has sex with his wife on top of the chest. He is forced to bear silently the buffets of the chest while his friend causes it to bounce through the movement of his hips. But once the joke is up and the chest is opened, does he strike out? Nope. He knows he is guilty of doing the exact same thing to his friends wife. So instead of being outraged for his honor, Spinelloccio admits his failings and agrees that what has been done to him is only fair play. In this way, the entire group benefits because they all decide to have sex with one another in whatever combination they choose. Hmmm did Boccaccio invent communism as well?