• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    We were telling dirty jokes about priests and alter boys when I was a kid in the 80s. It was well known and rampant 20 years BEFORE 20 years ago.

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      11 months ago

      Jeff Dunham even did a joke with Achmed the dead terrorist.

      “I like to throw a penny between two Jews and watch them fight to the death. I also do the same with Catholic priests but instead I throw a small boy! The winner has to fight Michael Jackson!”

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      11 months ago

      Yeah as a kid in the 70s, it was a known trope. Benny Hill and Monty Python even alluded to it.

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      11 months ago

      Somewhere in Rousseau’s “Confessions” there’s a bunch about him becoming disillusioned by the church as a child because of sexual abuse, and the head priest tells him “that’s how it’s always been”. That was written in 1769!

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      11 months ago

      A new priest has to replace another priest who recently retired. As he’s taking confession, the woman on the other side says she sinned because she performed a blowjob. The priest had no idea of the correct penance for this. Just then a young acolyte passes so he leans out of his chair and asks the boy: “how much do they give around here for a blowjob?” The boy promptly answers: “One snicker bar, sir.”

      Yeah, that’s the kinda stuff going around in the 80s.