tarted-up nuns

[Hypoxia]

Anglo-Saxon manuscript warns Nuns in 7th century Essex against dressing provocatively

The 1,300 year old Latin manuscript, titled ‘De Laude Virginitatis‘ [In Praise of Virginity].. was written by the Anglo-Saxon cleric Aldhelm and was dedicated to the nuns of Barking Abbey, founded in 666 AD. It advises the nuns to dress modestly to avoid “nourishing the fires of sexual anticipation.”

Aldhelm tells the nuns that their “stainlessness of bodily virginity” must be accompanied by a “chastity of the spirit” if they are to avoid the “untamed impulses of bodily wantonness”. He warns them against garments which “set off” the body:

“If you dress yourself sumptuously and go out in public so as to attract notice, if you rivet the eyes of young men to you and draw the sighs of adolescents after you, and nourish the fires of sexual anticipation … you cannot be excused as if you were of a chaste and modest mind.”​

Christ's brides were dressing hot. This was long before Hamlet and "get thee to a nunnery" (whorehouse). Plot bunny: In the Church of the Naked Christ, nuns who dress are branded as pervs. How to resolve the tensions?

 

[blackmohammed]

I don't really get what your going for because you explained all of the historical facts then with your story idea made it real short and choppy.

If your trying to to go with a new church forms "The church of the naked Christ" in which nuns that put on any clothing are considered pervs and how would that change cause tension?

Then I would say the story goes on to have a new young nun join the church and while in the process of taking her vows and such she learns she has to be naked and we see her become more and more comfortable with it as she goes while at the same time being turned on that everyone looks at her body while she is naked.

However if you are going with an alternate reality story where instead of nuns covering up to prove their chastity they stay nude as god made them then we would have a story where maybe the nuns stay in the nunnery but some sneak out to buy cloths only to be caught by some men or women who recognize them and force them to (Insert Fetish) or they will get them kicked out.


If I missed the point please tell me because I really like the over all feel of the stroy I just want to know if I'm on the right track.

 

[Hypoxia]

If I missed the point please tell me because I really like the over all feel of the stroy I just want to know if I'm on the right track.

It's not a "point". I'm not flogging any individual story, just tossing out a couple of follow-ups to the history which can be played many ways, tentacles not required. Life in ages past was so spottily documented that we can invent what we want. Tarted-up nuns in year CE 666? Maybe it's holy work with some holy orders, doing all they can to entice converts. Maybe it's a heretic strain, or a hot summer, or an outbreak of ergotism, or... whatever you can conjure. Be inventive. Pander to LIT readers' kinks. Think of leather nuns.

 

[LupusDei]

Ups...

 

[Maeven_quinn]

I never understood the nun kink until the last season of Daredevil.

Though to the historical document? I'd like to imagine a Nun who is constrained by the dress code, yet is busy finding every single passive aggressive way to skirt around the details. Perhaps finding sexy ways to seduce men with her voice.

Or better yet, because she's covered up all the time, no one recognizes her when she puts on a veil, dresses like a whore, and goes out and entertains a few lonely crusaders or something. There's an idea.

 

[Carnevil9]

The obvious category for a nun-centric porn story would be lesbian. Too obvious, in fact. I like the "leading a double life" idea, though.

Old joke alert: What kind of meat does a priest eat during Lent? Nun.

 

[Hypoxia]

Old joke alert: What kind of meat does a priest eat during Lent? Nun.

I studiously avoided that one.

Another consideration: What was considered nun-appropriate 'chaste' dress in various (alt.)historical times and places? Maybe topless OK but no ankles or elbows. Maybe limbs covered with holy tattoos. Maybe skinny-dipping in the laundry pond. Note that many in convents were wild girls exiled there by their moneyed families. How do superiors keep them in line? Or do they take bribes?

 

[LupusDei]

I studiously avoided that one.

Another consideration: What was considered nun-appropriate 'chaste' dress in various (alt.)historical times and places? Maybe topless OK but no ankles or elbows. Maybe limbs covered with holy tattoos. Maybe skinny-dipping in the laundry pond. Note that many in convents were wild girls exiled there by their moneyed families. How do superiors keep them in line? Or do they take bribes?

Like Crete dresses that exposed and accented beasts, or Egypt pharaoh garb designed for males but used without change by females. Some of that may be very hot for a modern reader, but in those circumstances it was the norm and likely seen that way, so you may want to toss a (time) traveler in for the shock value to be experienced.

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In the back garden of the monastery there is a spring fed fountain with water that is deemed to be holy and rumoured to have magic properties.

Nuns bathe in it on certain days, their eternal beauty no male ever sees might come from it. They also bathe brides there prior to the marriage ceremony.

There is a half forgotten legend about the spring and full moon that date back to pre-church times. Some adventurous youngsters want to try it out.

 

[Bray123]

Like Crete dresses that exposed and accented beasts, or Egypt pharaoh garb designed for males but used without change by females. Some of that may be very hot for a modern reader, but in those circumstances it was the norm and likely seen that way, so you may want to toss a (time) traveller in for the shock value to be experienced.

http://www.womenintheancientworld.com/fashio2.gif

Ancient Egyptian ladies often wore sheath dresses that finished below the breasts, exposing them. Sometimes they had cloth shoulder straps.

Slave/dancing girls would commonly be quite naked or wore minimal loin cloths. Expensive fabrics would not be wasted on slaves.
https://cdn.britannica.com/06/7906-004-E9D23DBF.jpg

 

[Hypoxia]

Ancient Crete and Egypt are fine-fine but we need an excuse in Xian times and places. Carrying on ancient pagan customs could work. The convent on remote Limnos Island in the Aegean Sea still follows Cretan tradition. A cargo of unfrocked priests is shipwrecked there. Hilarity ensues.

 

[blackmohammed]

I feel like this is getting away from naked nuns

Wouldn't nuns that practice a nude code of chastity follow the same main church and just alter there dress so that they can show themselves as god has made them to have some kind of logic?