History

Instruments of Torture and Inquisition: The Fakes You Have Always Believed in
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The medieval torture instruments, especially those attributed to the Inquisition - without even specifying which Inquisition it is - have always aroused profound interest, sometimes morbid, by the general public.

Many of you have visited torture museums and have asked us what the historical veracity or verisimilitude of the torture instruments on display is.. The answer is quite simple: these are opprobriums without any historical value that plague various Italian cities and, an incredible statement, they manage to obtain regional patronage, of the FAI and even quite famous NGOs. A cutting statement, but fully justified in light of what you will read below. Read More

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Actuality | Science and Bioethics

There's no going back? Dear Cirinnà, here are the numbers of the myths of progress
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“There is no going back on rights”. With these words the icon of the law of civil unions made his new media debut, Monica Cirinnà.
Obviously the controversial reference is entirely aimed at the minister of the Fontana family, guilty of having brought conceptual and cultural order to a topic that is too often the subject of propaganda and ideological manipulation, especially on the part of secularists.
The message is clear: this yellow-green government is turning the clock back on history, and stops the civil conquests of the Renzi and Gentiloni governments (“voted” by the people no?).
What did the new minister Fontana say that was so negative?? That rainbow families do not exist and that family is one, the natural one, provided for in the Constitution (item 29). And for Italy to start again, it must reduce the birth rate and focus on life, considering abortion a plague. And Cirinnà, not by chance, on the occasion of Prime Minister Conte's speech she appeared in the Chamber wearing a t-shirt praising gay families. Just to warm the spirits and stir up the fibrillations of the new majority who see Northern League members and Grillini as belonging to opposite sides on the subject (at least on paper). Read More

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Non-fiction | History

The sensational chastity belt hoax
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Report BastaBugie editorial team
It is not true that the Crusaders forced their wives to wear them… the first date back to 1800 (such as erotic games or to avoid sexual violence)
and Aleteia

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The use of so-called chastity belts, flexible metal bands capable of covering the genitals and then closed with padlocks, it dates back to the times of the Crusades, when the knights leaving for the Holy Sepulcher wanted to ensure the fidelity of their wives during their absence. The belt is nothing more than a historical fake. Just looking at them is enough to understand how they can be a source of wounds and infections and have locks that are relatively easy to open.
As Focus notes (August 2014) first of all, there is a hygiene problem: even if the classic belt has small openings for the fulfillment of physiological needs, wounds, infections and consequently the death of the wearer would have occurred very quickly.
Furthermore, it is plausible that before leaving the knights mated with their wives, perhaps with the hope of finding a child upon their return. It is evident that the presence of an iron belt would have prevented childbirth. Not to mention the simplest objection: any medieval lock could be opened by a blacksmith in seconds.
THEOLOGICAL PURITY
Beyond these logical inconsistencies, there is the fact that there are no authentic belts dating back to the Middle Ages. The idea of ​​sexual abstinence is certainly very ancient, as is the Latin term cingulum castitatis (translatable precisely as chastity belt) compare, starting from the 6th century, in some texts by Pope Gregory the Great, Alcuin of York, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, up to Giovanni Boccaccio. But in all these cases it is intended as a symbol of theological purity, certainly not as an object of erotic dissuasion. Read More

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