Tudor Life.

[Retroit]

Originally Posted by slowlane3

Melanie, another book on the subject is "Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven" which has 10 reader reviews on Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & more . The author, a practicing Catholic and college professor, gives well-documented historical source footnotes attesting that the Vatican's position for centuries was that the only reason for sex was to have children. Sex was therefore forbidden between sterile or older partners. The church in Europe also forbade sex on and around holy days and seasons (totally roughtly 1/3 of the year). Priests routinely told parents of babies born blind, crippled, or epileptic, that the infirmity was because the baby was conceived on one of those forbidden days. See Catholicism and sexuality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .

The contention that the Church discouraged people from having sex is laughable. I suppose you think the Church supported abortions as well?

[slowlane3]

Retroit, as I said, the "Eunuchs" book meticulously documents with footnotes, the historical documents proving the medieval prohibitions on sex during holy seasons.

Besides, the Catholic church has always had supposedly sex-free monastic holy orders, and a supposedly sex-free priesthood, which the Protestants generally have not (with some exceptions, such as the Shakers, the Ephrata cloister, and Anglican monastic communities).

[ovcatto]

Originally Posted by NJGOAT

Interesting discussing the rights and roles of women in a thread about Tudor England when the last of the Tudor monarchs was Elizabeth I, hardly the case study of women as chattel that one.

Not to mention Mary I.