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aviinterra -> RE: Renaissance Italy (2/14/2007 4:40:37 AM)
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I don't think you will find much. Sexuality, at least speaking of it or even allusions, were rare and restricted by the Church, which was fully in power at those times. Anything that you might be looking for, as in more daring and concretely sexual, would have gone up in flames when Savenarola came into power and halted artistic expression. Sadists and their counterpart certainly existed in those times, just not in the form of the lifestyle we have today. An Inquisitor could most certainly be a sadist, but you have to remember he did not do this for the pleasure of the woman or man at the other end, and often this sadism can be intermingled with religious passion. Life was brutal and painful back then and rape was a sort of looting of another man's property and not an erotic fantasy. With limited spread of info. and the topic taboo, most Europeans did not actually know that there is more than a single position for having sex, as was the case when explorers came to China and introduced the missionary position there in exchange for more exotic ones.While sexuality is complicated, you will be hard pressed to find our current lifestyle in an era when the word sadism did not even exist. Just my thoughts.
Edited for my crappy grammer.
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