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Sex In A Cold Climate/ The Magdalene Asylums
Steve Humphries' Sex in a Cold Climate , a documentary denouncing the Magdalene Asylums, which
were operated by Catholic nuns in Ireland for over 100 years, caused an uproar when it was televised
in England in March 1998 as part of Channel Four's Witness series. An estimated three million people
watched the documentary, one of the highest figures ever recorded for the series. A help line was set
up, which received calls from almost 450 women who had experienced abuse and trauma through the Magdalene Asylums
and the Catholic Church. The documentary was blacklisted by the Irish network RTE and to this date has
never been officially aired in Ireland.
Mr. Humphries has produced over 80 social-history documentaries and written 20 books based on ordinary
people's life stories. But he insists that Sex in a Cold Climate is the most important story he's told
yet. "The shame of being a Magdalene still runs so deep in Ireland nobody would [talk]. It was only women
who'd later escaped to England who were prepared to talk. This is the film I'm most proud of. There were
Magdalene Asylums all over the world, especially in Catholic countries, so this film has relevance to a
lot of people."
One of the viewers of Mr. Humphries' controversial 1998 film was actor-writer-director Peter Mullan.
Mr. Mullan was so inspired by the documentary that he decided to direct own his fictional version on the
subject, entitled The Magdalene Sisters , which was released in 2002 in the U.S. to rave reviews.
So what really went on in the Magdalene Asylums? In some cases, the women-many in their early teens-washed
and scrubbed and ironed laundry from 6 in the morning to 6 at night, six or seven days a week, with a day
off on Sunday (for incessant prayer, of course) and a day off for Christmas. The laundries were very profitable
for the church, but the female "sinners" were paid nothing for years and decades of hard labor. The Magdalenes
were not arrested, tried, or convicted for any crime; they were simply "detained".
In the mid-19th century, secular asylums in Ireland were taken over by the Catholic Church and converted into
Magdalene Asylums. They were originally intended to serve as a refuge for prostitutes, but their numbers grew,
along with the number of abandoned children due to the Potato Famine. The industrial orphanages that arose as
a consequence were exposed long ago for their cruelties in the treatment meted out to their helpless charges.
Yet amazingly, the last Magdalene Asylum didn't close until 1996.
These supposed Brides of Christ took charge of women from poor or nonexistent families, some for having children
out of wedlock, others for having "provoked" their own rapes by possessing potentially "sinful" attributes, still
others for simply being judged too dangerously attractive to avoid being plunged into sin with pitifully susceptible
males. Curiously, oversexed boys and men were never consigned to monasteries to repent of their sins, and as we've
now come to know, misbehaving priests were never, ever disciplined.
Phyllis Valentine, Brigid Young, Martha Cooney and Christina Mulcahy are the four eloquent real-life Magdalene
"penitents" featured in Sex in a Cold Climate. Ms. Young describes how a priest at confession masturbated on
her dress and then walked away as if nothing had happened; the young virginal girl was too inexperienced to know
if anything had. Ms. Valentine was delivered to the asylum because she was considered "too pretty" and therefore
a moral danger to herself and others. Ms. Cooney was incarcerated after she complained that a cousin had sexually
molested her. It was her fault, of course. But most moving of all was the story of Christina Mulcahy, who agreed to
talk about her experiences only because a diagnosis of terminal cancer had freed her from the prospect of any long-term
stigma she'd inevitably have to carry. Mulcahy was torn away from her illegitimate baby while she was still
breast-feeding him, on the grounds that she was an unfit mother. The baby was placed for adoption with a "good Catholic family,"
and Mulcahy was whisked off to the Magdalene Asylum with baby's milk still in her breasts. She searched for her abducted
son for much of the rest of her life, and was finally reunited with him shortly before her death in 1997.
Sex in a Cold Climate highlights the complicity between society at large and a so-called holy organization that
fostered a class of women steeped in shame and self-loathing, preventing all but a very few from finally bearing
witness to their suffering.
~Derived from a review by Andrew Sarris for The New York Observer, 2003
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Posted - 11/09/2017 : 23:23:10
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Jade Starling "Captive" / August 5, 2014 in New York City (Photo by Bobby Bank)
Pretty Poison - Catch Me (I'm Falling) [HD] (1987)
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Pretty Poison - Nighttime (original Philly version)
Pretty Poison with Jade Starling and Whey Cooler and the original Philly version of Nighttime,
not that phony Hollywood version. Filmed in the Kennel Club, Broad Street Subway and around
Philly circa 1983.
Jade Starling and Whey Cooler
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"Catch Me (I'm Falling)" is a dance-pop song released by the American group Pretty Poison in 1987.
It was included on the soundtrack to the film Hiding Out, which starred Jon Cryer and came out the
same year; the song later appeared on Pretty Poison's debut album, Catch Me I'm Falling (1988). It
was the group's biggest hit single to date, peaking at number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play
chart in late September 1987. Later that same year, the song charted inside the top ten of the Billboard
Hot 100 chart, peaking at number eight and remaining in the top forty for fourteen weeks. The single
was certified gold by the RIAA on March 9, 1989. In the UK the song entered the Top 100 for two weeks
at the end of January 1988 and peaked at no. 85. The B-side contained a shorter "Spanish Mix" vocal.
A re-recorded version of "Nighttime" became their second Hot 100 hit, climbing to number 36.
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An interpolation of "Catch Me (I'm Falling)" was used on Joss Stone's song "Proper Nice", taken from
her 2007 album Introducing Joss Stone.
This song is featured in the movie "Kickin it Old Skool".
In 2009, VH1 ranked "Catch Me (I'm Falling)" number 47 on its program 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s.
Pretty Poison had several more dance chart entries, the most recent being a new version of "Catch Me (I'm Falling)" which hit #43 in 1998.
Pretty Poison is an electronic dance music group based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Group members are Jade Starling (lead vocalist);
Whey Cooler (keyboardist/guitarist); and Kaya Pryor (percussionist).
February 2009 saw the release of new song "Finga Lickin' Good" on iTunes. A new CD was scheduled for release in the summer.
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Wiki: Pretty Poison (group)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Poison_(group)
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