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Mea Culpa

I’m not Catholic. I grew up in eastern North Carolina, in Southern Baptist territory. (I’m not Southern Baptist either, but that’s another subject.) I had one Catholic friend, so Catholics were around, but growing up I never really saw a priest, and I certainly never saw any nuns. So, I must confess, I don’t really get the whole nun fetish thing. I mean, in theory, I understand — the mix of repression, forbidden ideas, childhood conditioning, desire to tweak the establishment, etc. etc., but on a personal level, I don’t get it. Still, the sexual nun thing is clearly a subject with broad appeal, and I’m always happy to expand my own personal boundaries, so here are a few choice links on the subject.

First, as a Californian who lives right across the bay from San Francisco, I’ve had a few opportunities to see The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in action, and they make a memorable impression. These “21st century nuns” are mostly gay men who appear in full nun’s habits (occasionally made of, say, rubber), but they’re interested in more than just shock value; they’re serious about doing good works, and are dedicated activists on subjects including AIDS research and equal rights for queers of all descriptions, and they’ve “sainted” many people who’ve contributed to gay rights causes. Plus, one time they exorcised a Pope for saying nasty things about homosexuals, and how cool is that? Founded in San Francisco, they now have chapters all over the world.

Moving on to matters of actual, that is to say, Catholic, nuns, there’s been a little controversy recently regarding some newly-published poems by Nobel laureate Juan Ramón Jiménez — specifically poems that describe his erotic involvement (real or imagined, it’s not quite clear) with some Spanish nuns. The Guardian has an article on the subject, and the upshot is that the Sisters of the Holy Rosary are protesting the publication. Here’s a bit from one of the poems in question: “Sister Pilar, are your eyes still so black? / And your mouth so fresh and red? / And your breasts . . .? How are they?” Seems like a fair question. How are they?

That’s all very well, but I know, you want the smut. Well, we’ve got the smut. Try out Nunsploitation.net, the one-stop site for all your nunsploitation needs, including an extensive list of sexy nun movies, nun-related erotica, the occasional nun joke, and so on.

If that’s still a little too meta for you, all right, I relent. I give you EroticNuns.com. Erotic nun pictures. Japanese bondage nuns. “Real” ex-nuns in the nude. Dirty cartoon nuns. Hardcore nuns. Naked wrestling nuns. It’s nuntastic. It’s nunbelievable. I’ll stop making nun puns now. Y’all have fun fingering your rosaries.

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