An Act of Confession (1972, US, edited version, 35mm, DVD)
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A woman about to become a nun has recurring sexual dreams. Directed by porn auteur Anthony Spinelli.
Published by sound67
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A time when the world was in the throes of the dark ages.
And it was indeed a dark time for the populace of Europe.
War was common.
Famine and pestilence haunted the people.
Ignorance and superstition abounded the land.
Neighbor mistrusted neighbor and the politics of the time was religion.
The Christian ethic warped and twisted into an instrument of power and corruption.
Enough to raise massive armies and invade the peaceful regions of the eastern Mediterranean
to spill the blood of the infidels under the cross of Jesus.
Enough to conduct mass trials of thousands of heretics who did not hold with current beliefs.
Enough to strike terror into the hearts of a cowed population,
keeping them firmly beneath the thumb of tyranny, preached as Christianity.
All was not complete bleakness however.
Throughout the land there were miniscule havens of intellectual thought in intercourse.
Martin Luther had nailed his list of demands to the door of the Roman church.
And in England Henry VIII was busy divorcing wives, creating the Anglican church,
and lopping off the heads of his adversaries with impunity.
And for a ********** who did not look forward eagerly to 40 years of slavery
as the wife of some ignorant peasant, there was the nunnery.
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