[Strangelet]

Anyway, myrrh, the point of this thread wasn't to give you shit. And you're a good sport about the copious amounts that are thrown at you.

I just wanted to make the claim that religions that have draconian sexual prohibitions end up acting out sexually charged rituals that can be considered more lusty than the actual behaviors they are trying to control.

In mormonism and catholicism it comes across as seedy one on one "confessionals" where exact visceral details of people's sexual history is expected to be spilled out to a sweaty guy behind a desk or wire mesh. Mormon temple rituals involve getting your bits and pieces "blessed" or simply invaded depending on how you look at it. And what's more pornographic? A couple teens making out or having to spill the dirt like a phone sex operator.

The example that this thread started with, the flogging, is prime example. Extra care is placed in making it a voyeuristic/exhibitionist act, putting her in the right position, etc.

I mean you have to be *really* into girls to put that much attention on what they wear, what they show, and who are their company.

Its like the scene in persepolis, where the girl gets stopped by the iranian culture police because her gait makes her ass move suggestively. Her reply is stop looking at my ass. indeed.