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Re:Kissing in the Middle Ages by cantrememberpw8 on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:22PM (#30445136)
The article's claim about the Council of Vienne is incorrect: the Council was condemning the errors of the Beghards and Beguines, one of which errors was the claim that a woman's kiss was sinful [1]. Thus, the Council was in fact saying it was not sinful to kiss romantically.

[1] https://sensusfidelium.com/the-sources-of-catholic-dogma-the...

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Re:Kissing in the Middle Ages by bombcar on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @07:24PM (#30448684)
This was common for the anathemas written at the time, it would list all the positions, and then at the end say “anyone who holds these let him be anathema” - basically a “not” applied to all of them.

So if you read one out of context it’s confusing.

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