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"They used shaming punishments like the skimmington, which was quite painful for the men whose private parts were bounced on a wooden rail."
I think I need a diagram of this device to see how it worked and to get an idea of the genital injury severity we're talking about. I also can't stop laughing at the phrase "private parts" in a serious academic book, help, lol
— Sep 29, 2024 07:52AM
I think I need a diagram of this device to see how it worked and to get an idea of the genital injury severity we're talking about. I also can't stop laughing at the phrase "private parts" in a serious academic book, help, lol
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Sep 29, 2024 08:27AM
It took me a while to figure out exactly what torture device this sentence references, but I think it's the practice called riding the rail? A person was made to straddle a wooden rail that was being roughly carried by two other people.
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