#i could be so longwinded on this topic u don't even wanna know

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Can I send your google history further into the grave and ask what medieval christians thought about sex with Jesus? Does that come up at all as being a thing does any kind of “I had this vivid sexual dream/hallucination(?)” fall into witchcraft by default

I can probably answer this without too much research, although I did Google "medieval Christians sex Jesus" just in case there was some wild bit of trivia I wasn't aware of (all of the results were just people debating whether or not Jesus was a sex haver, which if you don't know is a huge argument amongst some theologians lol).

The reason medieval Christians were so hung up on the devil gettin' it on with human women is essentially the same reason many still want Jesus to be a virgin now, and that's just because Christianity has demonized sexuality (particularly female and queer sexuality) for centuries as a means of control. In these kinds of stories, the devil is always presented as masculine, and the victim/sinful willing participant is always a woman, and that's not an accident.

The stories from the Malleus Maleficarum (handbook on witches/how to identify and prosecute them from the 1400s) and the book below (too long of a title to type lol, 1697) present themselves as true accounts but really they read more like morality tales, warning women that any exploration of sexuality outside of reproduction with a husband will land them in some kind of eternal suffering. For example, a popular archetype is the devil donning some sort of human man disguise and seducing an unsuspecting woman, after which she is damned to hell for the sin of being deceived/being horny.

So all of that to say, sex = evil and bad, and therefore it was not associated with Jesus. The fact that Jesus was basically asexual was held up as a sign of his perfection and purity, so saying you had some kind of dream or vision about boning God's son would 1. be taboo because as a woman you weren't supposed to be talking about sex period and 2. probably get you suspected of some kind of witchcraft because the only people allowed to have any direct communication with God/Jesus, including visions of their plans, were the men who ran your church.

It's a notion that's carried over to the present day as we know, since there's still a stigma around anything sexual within the greater Christian culture, especially when it comes to female Christians.