From a historical perspective it was minor.


What a pity that when you're sitting blinfolded in a cell listening to
dogs barking and guards laughing and your fellow prisoners crying for
mercy, it's so difficult to keep the historical perspective in mind.

It makes me cry.

No. Lightly squeezing your genitals would make you cry. What we're
talking about would make you wish you'd been a little more sympathetic
to other people's suffering.