It's In the Code Ep. 49: Public Confession
Straight White American Jesus
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The Salacious Intent of Public Confession
The person making the confession is marked publicly as an object of shame. The function of the public confession can also then be the reinforcement of the identity of the community. And I think here it becomes part of a larger dynamic within high control religious environments where there often seems to be a really unseemly but telling fascination or focus on precisely those things that are deemed morally wrong.
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