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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6423094" data-attributes="member: 8835">Even if there wasn't the rape element, let's say volunteer comfort workers to ease the condemned's last night...prison people are more likely to infect each other with a variety stuff.  HIV runs rampant in our real world prisons.  Ironically enough (as SuperFreakonomics cited), hookers have an unexpectedly low HIV rate.Meaning, nobody in their undiseased right mind wants to have sexual contact with a criminal if they can help it.Sure, a medieval society has no idea what germs are, but they know the pecking order, and criminals are dirty, sick, diseased people.  Nobody's touching them without a 10' pole, let alone a 5" one if they can help it.Imagine the Duke's Daughter is Paris Hilton.  She'll touch a lot of things, but a pariah ain't one of them...</blockquote>