Igor’s Reviews > The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy > Status Update

"In practical terms, however, relations between two males, especially between two members of the clergy, were easier to conceal and, from this perspective, less scandalous than would be a priest’s relationship with a woman. From an institutional standpoint, the clergy’s relations with other males posed much less of a threat than comparable relations with females, since wives or concubines (...)

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