myrrh bait

[Strangelet]

the guardian posted a video of a young girl being flogged in public by the taliban because "She came out of her house with another guy who was not her husband, so we must punish her."

here's the account

Two men hold her arms and feet while a third, a black-turbaned fighter with a flowing beard, whips her repeatedly. "Please stop it," she begs, alternately whimpering or screaming in pain with each blow to the backside. "Either kill me or stop it now." A crowd of men stands by, watching silently. Off camera a voice issues instructions.
"Hold her legs tightly," he says as she squirms and yelps.

It strikes me that her punishment for committing a "promiscuous" act reads like the screen play of a sado masochist porn scene. In fact its hard to argue that there isn't more sexual charge in the public display than there ever was in her walking out of her damn house with a guy.

or is that just my diseased western mentality?