「Screwing in tribute received」in the form of concubines delivered from a vanquished vassal lord's fief was always a great RISK, LIABILITY, since many defeated lords sent tribute that had been deliberately infected beforehand with sexually transmittable disease, such as syphilis, in an attempt to seek revenge. It was always a best practice to allow newly received tribute to set a spell in isolation while the handlers would wait and see what developed:「rod in king's fleshpots, wealth」(that of another king).
Nonetheless, all given meanings of BLAME, RISK, LIABILITY, OBLIGATION, CENSURE, TORTURE and so on are depicted by the elements as「feces within flesh seam of fleshpot」if in this case that seam is anywhere other than the anus.
「Prick with a fleshpot」and a「prick with goal, eye on emissions」may not have been too concerned at that moment about the welfare of the service provider on that short-term rental program or as the lord's sex slave, leading to various degrees of TORTURE. Of course from the lord's or client's perspective, the concubine/service provider assumed the RISK, BLAME, was LIABLE, had an OBLIGATION and RESPONSIBILITY to perform as ordered. The shaman proprietress held both client and sex worker RESPONSIBLE, her to serve pleasingly, him not to damage the goods, and to pay his bill on time. All parties took the RISK and BLAME of passing on a sexually transmissible infection with the expressed OBLIGATION and RESPONSIBILITY not to do so.
As it still is to this day among capitalist societies, the entire economic system and culture which caused「pricks with fleshpots」was steeped in TORTURE, beginning from holding serfs in daily poverty who were then forced to sell children as sex slaves, undergoing traumatic procedures for all involved and dis-integrating feet by pulverizing the tarsal bones, constantly binding the feet tightly cutting blood circulation and causing gangrene with sepsis, placing shards under the toes to cause them to detach by rotting, living the remainder of life on one's ass as a fellatrix to gleet-oozing shafts, and so on and so forth.
Maintaining the lord's investment in his harem was also fraught with CENSURE, RISK, BLAME, LIABILITY, OBLIGATION and RESPONSIBILITY placed upon the eunuchs to prevent any losses, and to keep the herd of females in prime meat condition as long as possible.
「Thorn, prick」with「fleshpot, wealth」and may refer to each person's RESPONSIBILITY, OBLIGATION, and possibly the related BLAME and being personally LIABLE for placing rancid meat or thorny plants as foodstuffs into the community fleshpot and RISK spoiling the whole brew. Toxic mushrooms and plants might kill everyone, foul-tasting plants might make the otherwise valuable contents inedible, raw meat may be spoiled and bacteria-laden.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: duty; responsibility; to reproach; to blame
Japanese EDRDG: blame, condemn, censure
Unihan extended: one's responsibility, duty