Japan too embraced the naughty nun and produced some of the most stylish of all Nunsploitation movies including such perverse delights as Nikkatsu studio’s ‘Sins of Sister Lucia’, ‘Cloistered Nun: Runa’s Confession’, ‘Sensual Sanctuary’ and Norifumi Suzuki’s jaw-dropping School of The Holy Beast. Fetishized images of naughty nuns; sisters whose fidelity to God is challenged by their own overwhelming libidinous desires, are common in many modern media but the cult film sub-genre affectionately known to its enthusiasts as the Nunsploitation movie has a particular genesis and lifespan the focal point of which is Italy in the 1970s. A priest is sent to a small parish in the Polish countryside which is believed to be under demonic possession and there he finds his own temptations awaiting.

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Marginalia also offers a visual record of what ordinary things looked like in the medieval era, like this image of a man working on a forge from the Gorleston Psalter, c. 1310-1324. (British Library Royal MS 49622, f. 193r.) Collectors Weekly: Why were pictures of excrement so prevalent? Two high-spirited young students at St. Francis Academy keep things hopping for the challenged Mother Superior and her staff of bewildered Sisters. Manning: Yes, particularly in the 12th century and earlier. The content became more varied as literacy grew more prevalent among various classes and as society became a bit more secularized. Chivalric romances were very popular, as were epic poems and tales of travel (like The Canterbury Tales, for example). Traditionally speaking, however, reading and writing was a concern of the church. Monks and nuns, particularly, needed to be able to read sacred texts, and because their duties included copying them, they needed to write. But in the later Middle Ages, literacy among the secular elite became more common. Around this same time period, in the 13th and 14th centuries, bookmaking was increasingly in demand, so it started becoming a legitimate profession with artisans, workshops, and guilds. They tended to be concentrated in cities where much of the newer wealth was located. Multiple people worked on creating a book: There was the person who wrote out the text, who may or may not be different from the person who illustrated it, who may or may not be different from the person who illuminated it or painted it and added the gold foils and bound it. Monks were still producing books, but it was shifting to a job for artisans.Boasting hot lesbian nuns and blasphemous sex with a wooden Virgin Mary icon, Benedetta was the sensational title that got tongues wagging at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. These sisters may be doing it to themselves (often in titillating, erotic soft-focus) but, as brides of Christ, their bodies should belong only to God.

Promiscuous Monks and Naughty Nuns: Poverty, Sex, and

Italy was not the only country to exploit the bad habits of nasty nuns in cinema at this time. During the golden age of the exploitation movie in the 1970's naughty nun cinema exploded around the globe. And there is the enduring ‘nuns and guns’ strain embodied by Lindsay Lohan’s machine gun-toting The Sister in Machete (2010).

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For novices the following 5 films are recommended as an introduction to the illicit thrills of the Nunsploitation film and represent a good example of the themes and imagery prevalent throughout the genre. Amen. Among the many Nunsploitation titles produced in Italy during this period are The Nun of Monza, Story of A Cloistered Nun, Behind Convent Walls, Flavia The Heretic, Killer Nun, The Sinful Nuns of St. Valentine, The Nuns of St. Archangel, The Abbess of Castro and Our Lady Of Lust. Two notorious directors who are both well known for contributing significantly sleazy entries to almost all Italian exploitation movie sub-genres also helmed notable Nunsploitation movies: Joe D’Amato with Images In A Convent and ‘The Convent of Sinners and Bruno Mattei with ‘The Other Hell’ and ‘The True Story of the Nun of Monza’. Because no one can apparently leave women alone for a single second, cinema has a long and torrid fascination with nuns in compromising positions.