Auricular Confession and the Crisis in the Church -- Confession and Confessors in Transition -- The Spanish Inquisition and Its Jurisdiction Over Solicitation -- Trial and Punishment -- The Soliciting Confessor -- Victims and Unwilling Penitents -- Submissive and Ambivalent Penitents -- Carnal Behavior and Sexual Disorders -- Solicitation and Confession in the Anticlerical Imagination.
Summary
Drawing upon a wealth of actual cases and trial evidence left by the Spanish Inquisition, this work documents the eroticizing of the confessional between 1530 and 1819. It argues that the Counter-Reformation Church actually helped to foster sexual solicitation in the confessional.
