Personal anecdote: the main offices of the publisher of my BDSM – A guide for explorers of extreme eroticism are in Rome. Several years ago, when it first came out, they excitedly phoned me to say that the buzz about the book was such that people literally couldn’t wait for it to reach the stores. Just days after it was announced a man had called them asking for a special supply of a dozen copies to be collected by hand at the publisher’s as soon as they were available. They had already received a batch of samples, so they had graciously agreed, packing the books in a plain parcel as requested.
Imagine their surprise when in a matter of hours a Catholic priest showed up at the door to collect the order and hurriedly disappear in the general direction of the Vatican. I regret to say that I was much less impressed than them.
This is why I wasn’t too surprised by this story from the digital piracy news siteTorrentfreak. To sum it up, they ran a public access antipiracy tool to check out whether any illegal download of copyrighted movies or music originated in Vatican City – which I remember my secular readers to be the independent city-state where the Pope and his top accomplices reside, shielded from legal prosecutions.
It turned out that the 832-people strong enclave isn’t particularly interested in this sort of entertainment: they downloaded just three pirated movies, almost no music and a few television series. This is enough to go to hell for the «Thou shalt not steal» commandement, but the real gems were on another page of the downloads list. According to the below log, the good priests («Studies show that no more than just 5%of us abuses children!» famously said archbishop Tomasi. Since there are 412,970priests worldwide, you do the math) have a thing for BDSM. The harder the better. Oh, and possibly with underage victims, by the way.
Titles like Sklavin Zuchtigung im duklen Hobbykeller teen fesselspiele (translated: ‘tying up for fun and punishing a teenager slavegirl in a dark private dungeon’) and RS77 Episode 01, where ‘RS’ stands for Russian slaves are rather eloquent.
Not that it matters too much, since the age of consent within the city is 12 due to a never-amended law from 1929. After all, you wouldn’t expect nothing less from the country with the highest crime rate on the planet, would you?