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Detail from Monk and Nun - A scene of seduction facilitated by wine. Probably by a German artist. c. 1625. - Catarijneconvent Museum, Utrecth, The Netherlands.

Note the aborted or "failed eggs" and fetuses depicted. (Fuller and more detailed view).

One of many propaganda works stressing sexual problems faced by the Roman Catholic Church stressed by followers of Luther who legalized marriages of priests. Luther married a nun. (Note nanny, nana, nurse, nursery, see mother).


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