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This ancient word was mainly used in a non-sexual sense in medieval times. To prick meant to prod, spur or goad an animal as well as to pierce.

In the King James version of the New Testament, Saul of Tarsus stopped persecuting the Christians of his time after suddenly going blind while travelling to Damascus and at the same time hearing a voice saying "Saul, Saul, why kickest thou against the pricks?" The English audience of the time ( Shakespeare's contemporaries) this would have been a way of asking why Saul was ignoring what his conscience know was wrong. Saul converted to Christianity at that moment and started to preach Christianity to his fellow Jews, who were the first Christians.

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