Tequila wrote:
spongy wrote:
Dont start giving them ideas, otherwise we are doomed.
Well, the Catholic Church themselves getting involved in its production would make me smile. However it would most likely lead to the destruction of that church. Which is no bad thing.
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What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
They already did that. In the middle ages, there were literal brothels operated by monks and nuns. This was during the time of the plague, so the old clergy just died off, and needed to be replaced, so basically anyone could become clergy.
This here, it's somewhat hard to prove or disprove, as the church will argue they didn't sanction and the brothels were only like, paying rent to the church or whatever.
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The necessary evil concept and the Magdalene model had paved the way for an intimate association between Church and whore that would have been inconceivable in either ancient Israel or in St Augustine's time. In the high Middle Ages some extraordinary examples of this association existed. The Bishop of Winchester rented rooms to prostitutes in Southwark under an ordinance of the English King Henry 11 which lasted 400 years (Burford 1976, pp. 41-2). In 1337 the nuns of Stratford opened a brothel for business to support their convent (Burford 1976, p. 75). In 1347 Queen Joana of Naples opened a brothel in Avignon next door to the Pope's residence, and gave the control of it to the nunnery on the other side (Scott 1968, p.68). In Toulouse a brothel known as "the Grand Abbaye" served as a source of revenue for the university for 200 years (Cleugh 1970, p. 138). Early in the 16th century Pope Julius 11 was so inspired by the success of the Avignon brothel that he established one in Rome (Tannahill 1981, p. 264).
Also, during the time of the plagues, men who kept their sexual desires to adult women were considered living saints. Yep...