First sexy essay

This idea is even included (in a very tame way) in the popular children’s television series Horrible Histories, in which the title characters in the ‘Funky Monks’ Song’ declare that for a monk to stick true to his vows he must live a life of no fun. As soon as the bishop’s back is turned, they eat, drink and smuggle in a nun.

In the tiny parish church of St Botolph’s, Hardham, West Sussex, is a quartet of twelfth-century wall paintings that tell the story of Adam and Eve. In the best preserved, the first man and woman are unashamedly naked. Then Eve succumbs to the Temptation, represented by a strange winged serpent. The other images depict the couple after the Fall, per-forming agricultural tasks, immersing themselves in water to quell theirnewly emerged lust, and finally cowering in shame