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My favourite awful example is Rhaphanidosis [1] -- the act of shoving a radish up a man's anus as a punishment, typically for adultery.

That sentence alone tells you an awful lot about the society it came from.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaphanidosis



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