The Decameron Day 2

Within the assigned readings, I chose the Fifth Day, Eighth Story and the Third Day, First Story. On the Fifth Day, Eighth Story, it told a tale about a woman who created on her husband (her GAY husband) with the help of a troublesome elder lady. When the husband finds out about this affair, he has a surprising reaction. In most of the other stories, men were not looked upon different if they cheated but women were seen as whores. This being said, I was seeking the reaction of the husband going mad on the wife. However, the husband does not care. Instead, he tells the wife to invite over the man she cheated on her husband with. The three of them, then, have a threesome. I found this very weird but interesting. In most other stories we have read, the wife would have been killed, literally, if she cheated. In this one, the wife gets away with it and gets permission to have a threesome? Not only would this not have happened in the other stories, but this would not really happen in real life relationships as well. On the Third Day, First Story, it told a tale about a seedy man who pretends to be deaf and pretends he cannot talk as well. He uses this story to lure young pretty nuns to him in order for sexual advances. The nuns, however, appear to be more sexual than he is. He gets angry with this (as well as slightly embarrassed) because he cannot keep up them with physically and mentally during sex. I found this story even stranger than the first because not only is a man being applauded for pretending to be vastly ill to get sex, he is having sex with NUNS. Nuns aren't supposed to have sex with anyone, yet, they are all having sex with the very same man repeatedly. 

Both of these stories have to do with lust, even though it is in a strange way. Both stories tell of situations where inappropriate sexual advances are overlooked and are almost rewarded with sex again. It almost seems as if sex isn't this act of love anymore, even though this is how it is portrayed in some of the stories we have read about. In one story, a man lies about a disease and has sex with nuns....and the other is about a wife cheating on her husband and then her husband initiating a threesome with the guy who had sex with his wife! As I saw in Hilary's blog, it make me question what people will do these days in order to have their sexual wants to be taken care of. The wife risked her marriage to have sex with a random man and the nuns are risking their connection and devotion to Jesus and God in order to have sex with a lying scumbag. In both of these stories, surprisingly, the women are the ones who commit these heinous acts. All the men want are love. However, they don't care when they find out what the women did in order to have sex.