re: Is there anything more painful than being skinned alive?

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I read in Mid-Evil times a common torture technique was called "receiving the shaft". This was being slowly shafted all the way up the arse with a long sharp wooden stick. I'll let your imagination do the rest of the visualization.

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Impaling ... up the arse with a dull spike or pike and left to die slowly as gravity pulled your body down, the spike or pike ripped your arse apart and slowly worked its way up into your body cavity.

Thus, Vlad the Impaler.