To browse Academia. Michelle Armstrong-Partida. Shunichi Akasaka. Emily C Adams. Syed M Waqas. Sex, when discussed in a public setting, turns out to be a controversial subject within the context of the hypersensitive inner workings of modern society.
One cannot freely talk about sex or practice sex in the public sphere in order for maintaining a sense of civic decency and public morality. This article attempts to look behind the notion of guilt associated with sex in the Judeo-Christian civilization of the West and rise above the prevailing pietistic cultural framework that came to dominate the globe after the conversion of the Byzantine Empire to Christianity.
I will, therefore, treat sex as the enshrinement of the said concept in the sanctuary of human religious practice through history. Ritual sex is an artifact of the prehistoric times, which, within the fringes of pagan spiritu Eukene Lacarra Lanz.
Christian Knudsen. English Abstract Gendered Penance and Monastic Sexual Misconduct While the requirement of celibacy was important for both monks and nuns β it is the former which traditionally received more notice from ecclesiastical authorities. Indeed, while fornication of any sort was condemned by the medieval Church, fornication with a nun was classified as one of the maiora crimina which incurred the highest ecclesiastical legal condemnation.
However, while legislative sources emphasize the culpability of the sexual partners of nuns, they tell us very little about the degree of guilt attributed to the nuns themselves, and the punishment assigned to them. Similarly, although the physical chastity of monks was de-emphasized in comparison to nuns in monastic writings of the later Middle Ages, it was still expected of them.
