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self flagellation

13 replies

WonderfulAngel · 30/12/2019 21:02

has anyone ever slept with a man who had scars on his back due to religious self flagellation?

I have and didn't know what the hell to make of it until the advent of the internet when I googled it

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DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 30/12/2019 21:40

Gosh, thought that stuff died out with Vatican 2.

Merename · 30/12/2019 21:41

No! Random!

MamaKarmaLlama · 30/12/2019 21:46

Run!

NoOneNeedsToKnowThis · 30/12/2019 21:47

Erm...NO.
I’m actually laughing at how weird this is Grin

Merename · 30/12/2019 21:50

Haha @NoOneNeedsToKnowThis! Me too, rereading the op I’m now thinking, until the advent of the internet...did the shag in question happen a long time ago? Would you care to share any more details op?

IHaveBrilloHair · 30/12/2019 21:53

The things I read on MN!

Happysummer2020 · 30/12/2019 21:54

That's up there with screaming in the Cistine chapel..

bananahood · 30/12/2019 22:07

Errrr no. BUT I do have a family member who participates in self flagellation. So it does happen. Albeit very rarely. She is truly nuts.

Mollypolly2610 · 30/12/2019 22:09

Shia Muslim.

Tartyflette · 30/12/2019 22:12

Read somewhere that Opus Dei catholics might do this. But I don't think it's officially sanctioned.

Dowser · 30/12/2019 22:57

Yes, that sect in the da Vinci code
Someone in politics was a member
They wore a barbed wire type bracelet around their thigh
Something like a silice
Was a female politician

Dowser · 30/12/2019 22:59

Ruth. Kelly possibly

helpfulperson · 31/12/2019 16:36

In this house of brede by rumer godden discusses this. Its is about nuns in the sixties and covers the impact of Vatican 2.

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