In the meantime, I made a little research regarding the japanese crucifixions (we talked about some months ago) and I found that however females were relatively frequently crucified in feudal Japan, the double-beamed cross equipped with a kind of a console (playing a role of a sedile) was used only for males. According to the sources, the female prisoners were crucified with their legs tied together to the post, so their cruces resemble Roman crux longa with no sedile. This was in line with other customs, saving women's modesty, for example before committing the seppuku, noblewomen often had tied their ankles together in order to avoid involuntary showing their nakedness during an uncontrolled falling down or stretching on the floor in the last paroxism. The crucified victims have never been hanged for long and never were left alone - after few minutes up to few hours, depending on the situation, they were instantly killed with a thrust of a pair of long yari-style spears, piercing their rib cage from the lower left and right. To give access to the body, the sides of the rib cage were uncovered, that's why the crucified Japanese women had their breast exposed. But no more nudity was allowed and it seems that the crucifixion with its quick death and limited amount of pain and shame (though very bloody) was rather a common punishment, playing the same role as hanging on the gallows in the medieval and renaissance Europe. Both were relatively quick and rather not obscene, but both were supposed to be humiliating and unworthy.
