/lit/ - Literature

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It's hard to describe it in anything other than the vaguest and most abstract terms but it's probably to do with the metaphorical "penetration" of an attractive body that's going on. If you spend any amount of time looking at or reading depictions of martyrs (especially female ones), you'll notice how sexualized their poses or expressions are, or that oftentimes they're straight up described as feeling pleasure instead of pain. My art history teacher in hs introduced me to the theory that early Christian depictions of martyrdom were deliberately created as a kind of church-sanctioned pornography, where the viewer was meant to be titillated by the penetration I mentioned and the coomer impulse would be transformed into something more elevated and guilt-free. Besides in my head there's something hot about a spiritual figure being forced to contend with the physicality of their body and how it limits them, especially if they're forced to do so by ugly and mindless corporeal swine. There's a nice power exchange going on and le funny gay bong man Oscar Wilde did say that sex is about power.