@sapphael: Thank you to the MULTIPLE followers on IG who sent me sources related to this, all of which were incredibly useful. I don’t know what I’d do without you guys <3 thank you for coming through with citations when all of my search terms are just leading me to NSFW results rather than real historical facts. Again, to the platforms I am posting this on: EDUCATIONAL. #medieval #History #religion #historyfacts # A source: Dyan Elliot, “Sex in Holy Places: An Exploration of a Medieval Anxiety” in Journal of Women’s History, Volume 6, Number 3, Fall 1994, pp. 6-34. 

Winter Grace :

Those stories sound like medieval fanfiction. They would fit right in on AO3

𝔖𝔢𝔯 𝔇𝔲𝔫𝔠𝔞𝔫𝔰 𝔚𝔦𝔣𝔢 :

i didn't know knotting was a thing in medieval Europe

YersiniaPete :

why? because people are freaky and have always been freaky

BoopSnoot :

sylverhawke :

this, fortunately, is not true ❤️, someone who has had sex in a church

Adora :

As someone who has had sex in a church, ngl I’m glad this didn’t happen to us

Xiao :

The church members who came up with this

Florence :

I wonder if this has any origins in the myth of Aphrodite and Ares being trapped together, and they were only allowed to be freed after all the gods came together, laughed at them, and Poseidon offered to pay Hephaestus the adulterer’s fee in Ares’ stead

Trazyn's Surrogate Reposts :

The priests spread that around for plausible deniability.

putagaal :

how are they getting stuck 😭 why are they knotting

Topher :

How much of medieval lore like this is just 'shit we told a kid that got out of hand'? 😂

Kasey Smith :

Hahaha. I am here to say this is definitely not true. 🤣

jpowpow :

why knot?

shantimony :

The choice to add the flaming ‘holy’ graphic, spontaneously, mid-video = inspired

Nanda :

....I'm bi. cmon nuns and priest...

Olga 🔱 🇪🇺 :

love how i never know what to expect for the topic du jour and i am never disappointed

SpheresWithEars :

And yet royal wedding nights HAD to be witnessed in order to be valid 🙂‍↕️

Annalyssa :

You see this and don’t think that’s hot? Wild 🙄/s

Ramesh :

Some people say rules often come about because someone broke the rule. I do wonder if that's what's going on here, or if people just like mentally putting together the purest thing they can think of and the most sinful thing they can think of?

na :

happened to me once, it was horrible

⛧°. ⋆🎒🌀𝕬𝖘𝖙𝖆🐇💊⋆. °⛧ :

I have the magic ability of always being early to these

amalthea :

That’s hot

Laura 🤠 :

this is true actually, I saw it happen at Bible camp

Rylan :

Together (2025)

☭ comradefynnnn☭ :

So does this apply to Priesters and their kids?