Oh some say that kissing's a sin...

[tree_and_leaf]

Apparently a group of beghards†, tried for heresy at Vienne in the mid fourteenth century, asserted that while sex was morally innocent, because required by nature for the continuation of the species, kissing, being merely frivolous and pleasurable, was a sin.

This has no relevance to anything I'm doing, but I found it in my notes and felt compelled to share the bogglement.

† Male semi-religious, living in communities in apostolic poverty, the male version of beguines (who are normally defined as living under a vow of poverty and chastity, though not obedience, but these chaps clearly had a somewhat eccentric definition of chastity...)

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[dechant]

Bogglement shared is bogglement... doubled, actually, in this case. Mmm, but I can see how a kiss would feel like a sin sometimes. :-D