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one can look at his nakedness as being sexual, and i can't tell you that that isn't a possible interpretation...but i think that it's important to remember than the nudity was, at least by the Romans, intended to shame the victim. It is no necessarily a conflation of sex and pain, but of shame and pain...a mixture we probably are already aquainted with from our lives. The crucifix is that combination taken to its utmost reach. Jesus goes to the depths of the death world that we have created, to show us the way out.
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