Talk:The Number of Darkness/@comment-28088262-20150730135229/@comment-26030957-20150730185842

Thanks so much, Rinskuro.

Well Jay ninjaed me on the fairer sex comment, echoing my thoughts on the matter perfectly.

I would like to address the theme of demons and sex. Throughout history lascivious behavior has been blamed on demons and the devil. Even modern day tales of possession nearly always include graphic sexual scenes such as that infamous scene in the film The Exorcist where the young possessed girl violently masturbates with a crucifix while howling, "Let Jesus fuck you!"

A very fascinating case is that of Urbain Grandier a priest who was burned at the stake in 1634 in Loudun France. He was a sexually active priest who even wrote an essay attacking the doctrine of clerical celibacy. Apparently the nuns of the local Ursuline convent had taken to having great sex orgies and blamed him for their lewd behavior. They accused him of being in legal with the devil and after a lengthy trial where he was tortured and his head shaved he was burned alive, though most modern historians agree this was a political power move.

I bring this case up because it is the sex demons charged in this instance that I used in my story, namely Asmodeus, Zabulon, Gressil, and Amand. I came across there names while reading about this case and thought it fitting to use them.

Most fascinating, the court even offered up the contract Grandier signed with the demons. I will provide a copy of it at the end of this comment.

As for spicing up my dates, I tend to find that kind of thing gimmicky and don't do that. My stories are spicy enough, as you pointed out, and I feel that would only be a distraction. You may have noticed I also don't include pictures, separate chapters with their own editable posts, or narrations. Just words.

Here is that contract with the demons that was presented in court in 1634 as proof that Urbain Grandier was in league with demons: