In the Middle Ages, homosexual sins among clerics were severely punished according to the following strict guidelines:
Simple kissing: Six special fasts.
Licentious kissing, without emission: Eight special fasts.
Kissing with emission: Ten special fasts. The penance was to live in continence, to take meals - of bread and water only - in seclusion, and to be excluded from the church, the length of time presumably left to the discretion of the confessor.
