EarnestImp
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Yesterday, I was listening to a BBC radio 4 programme called 'Document'. On this show, they unearth a old document, and discuss the events that surrounded it with various historical experts. This week it was really freaking good.
They found a lawsuit from 1433, seeking a Church marriage annulment. It was pressed by a 26 year old woman against her impotent husband. Under the rules of the Church, a woman could annul a marriage if the husband couldn't consummate it.
But the Church knew that people used this rule as a trick to get a divorce, and divorces were forbidden.
So the woman had to PROVE impotence on the part of her husband John. She pulled this off by having 8 women retire with him to a chamber where they plied him with food and drink, and then proceeded to relieve him of his britches.
According to the recorded testimony of the women, the women warmed their hands before the fire, and then tweaked and tormented poor John's testicles and penis, telling him 'Show us you're a man!'. Eventually, some of them stripped - still no luck. His willie just hung there, 'not more than three inches in length'. Finally, they pushed him down on the bed and one of the semi-naked women jumped on him. Alas, no systems go. So they left him in disgust, and reported their findings to the court.
The radio presenter interviewed various 'experts' to discuss the case. One was a modern marriage counsellor who expressed his outrage at John's treatment and said that in modern times John would have been treated with therapy sessions and maybe a bit of Viagra. Various historians speculated whether the women involved were prostitutes or the local branch of some type of official Church examination committee. And they even interviewed 'Britain's most famous madam', who said that using eight women was far too intimidating for poor John, and said that she would have used just two. John was probably a heavy 6 footer, madam said, because small skinny guys just can't be stopped.
Altogether hilarious. In France, the rules were even harsher, and the couple would be forced to attempt to copulate in front of a group of Church magistrates.
For anyone with more kinky and unconventional tastes in the erotic, these mediaeval practices should provide ample material for a historically accurate but deliciously perverse story.
They found a lawsuit from 1433, seeking a Church marriage annulment. It was pressed by a 26 year old woman against her impotent husband. Under the rules of the Church, a woman could annul a marriage if the husband couldn't consummate it.
But the Church knew that people used this rule as a trick to get a divorce, and divorces were forbidden.
So the woman had to PROVE impotence on the part of her husband John. She pulled this off by having 8 women retire with him to a chamber where they plied him with food and drink, and then proceeded to relieve him of his britches.
According to the recorded testimony of the women, the women warmed their hands before the fire, and then tweaked and tormented poor John's testicles and penis, telling him 'Show us you're a man!'. Eventually, some of them stripped - still no luck. His willie just hung there, 'not more than three inches in length'. Finally, they pushed him down on the bed and one of the semi-naked women jumped on him. Alas, no systems go. So they left him in disgust, and reported their findings to the court.
The radio presenter interviewed various 'experts' to discuss the case. One was a modern marriage counsellor who expressed his outrage at John's treatment and said that in modern times John would have been treated with therapy sessions and maybe a bit of Viagra. Various historians speculated whether the women involved were prostitutes or the local branch of some type of official Church examination committee. And they even interviewed 'Britain's most famous madam', who said that using eight women was far too intimidating for poor John, and said that she would have used just two. John was probably a heavy 6 footer, madam said, because small skinny guys just can't be stopped.
Altogether hilarious. In France, the rules were even harsher, and the couple would be forced to attempt to copulate in front of a group of Church magistrates.
For anyone with more kinky and unconventional tastes in the erotic, these mediaeval practices should provide ample material for a historically accurate but deliciously perverse story.
I meant to listen to that and then forgot it.
