![]() ![]() Search “lesbian nuns” on IMDB, and you’ll get a long list, including titles like The Nun and the Devil (1973), Behind Convent Walls (1978), Killer Nun (1979) and School of the Holy Beast, a Japanese contribution from 1974 described as “ Dario Argento meets the Marquis de Sade.” Recently, Showgirls director Paul Verhoeven threw his hat in the ring with Benedetta, which premiered at Cannes in 2021 and was derided as “nunsense” and “ Showgirls in a convent” by AP Entertainment. ![]() Pedro Almodóvar’s Dark Habits (1983) is a favourite of mine, featuring a corrupt Mother Superior who shoots heroin and lusts after members of her crumbling order, after giving them names like Sister Manure and Sister Damned. Nunsploitation, which peaked in the 1970s in Europe, doesn’t always feature lesbian desire and misbehaviour, but nun-on-nun activity is nonetheless a common trope-all-women populations cloistered in isolated medieval convents and sworn to chastity, are, at least in our collective horny imagination, hotbeds for perversity and lesbianism. ![]() There is a long and smutty history of nuns in queer media, particularly in film-nunsploitation is, after all, its own film subgenre. ![]()
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