Going back to some of my renders from The Serpent's Eye of Lucilla, a naked woman on an "X" cross would have been about as obscenely displayed as she could possibly be, unable to close her legs together, her female parts on full view at all times. Lucilla was given a sharp-edged sedile to rest on if she chose, trading pain in one place for pain in another. Here she studies the rough piece of wood between her legs, deciding whether she will try to rest on it:
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She tries to lower herself onto it as gently as she can:
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But there's only one place the hard wooden edge is going, and everyone watching can see what is happening to her. She groans as it presses into her cleft and sinks in until her lower lips wrap around it.
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As she struggles to bear the pain between her legs while she tries to rest her arms, she vents her wrath on the slave girl who stands there watching her humiliating torture, shouting at her that she could easily end up naked on a cross herself like this with a piece of wood up in her cunnus, too.
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Her words are prophetic; a few days later Sabina is hanging nailed to a cross in this same place outside of Rome.