I thought this might have been some sort of mile-high-club competition, and couldn't imagine you could get much of an audience without an obstructed view in the lavratory of a 747, but I see I was gravely mistaken.
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That is exactly what my first thought was!
There is a thing in a remote part of Indonesia, where people go to have sex with a total stranger, once a year. It takes place high in the mountains. Participants are supposed to pick someone at random from the other people there, and then the couple go in front of an Imam for a short ceremony to have the act sanctioned/blessed, then they wander off to find a private spot on the hillside and, well, DO IT. Theoretically, they are supposed to come back for seven consecutive years and re-locate the exact same stranger, but many people just happen not to find the same one, and pick someone new each year. The authorities have tried to discourage people from this, because of fear of AIDs and STDs spreading among the populace, but there are still several thousand people who make the long trek into the (fairly remote) location to participate, every year. Supposedly, participation is like a kind of rebirth, and it is supposed to bring riches and success, and make your wishes come true, if you do it for all seven years.
It's a strange thing for a Muslim country, since many participants are married people cheating on their spouses, which is an offence traditionally condemned under Islam, for which people could be stoned to death, but the roots of this go back to pre-muslim days and old superstitious beliefs, which (think of the masked dances and such in Bali) co-exist alongside Islamic beliefs quite well in most of Indonesia.
But personally? I think as many or more people go for the "kicks" of it, as go because they actually believe it will help their lives!
