Life Changing Mindset

How does religion affects your thinking/mindset of sex?

Sex maybe sinned to some people. Or some people feel that we should not get involved in sex.
But many are due to religious issues. So, how do you feel that religion has affected people's mindset of sex? And do you feel that your thinking towards sex is because of religion? Thanks for answering:D

Public Comments

1. Sex is bad mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmkay.

2. Not at all.

3. It makes my sex life way better.
The bible contains many sex tips that help increase performance levels.

"Maintain a hard and erect shaft while pushing hard and steady. Take it slow. For she is your engine and you are the gasoline."
Deuteronomy 9:12-14

4. Many religions use the pleasure of sex to induce guilt, to control their adherents, and to promote prejudices.

Look at how many clergy (and politicians) get up to the most scandalous sexual antics, and this illustrates the hypocrisy of religion.

5. Studies show that the most sexually satisfied people are married christian women...

6. it messed me up . I hate religion because of that. They expected me to have children and have sex but constantly i was accused of being whore and not being virgin enough.. I hate virgins and whors and all they label women and all crap i knew about sex..those man who made that up were controlled by sex

7. I think religions like fundamentalist Christianity often make sex or sexual desire dark and dirty, even simple nudity is dark and dirty.

In my faith, Judaism, sex is wonderful and fulfilling, sex on the sabbath is even a Mikveh.

Because we live in an apartment in NY and our living spaces can be quite small, casual nudity among our family was regarded as a norm and not a bad thing. When my kids grew up they thought nothing of us seeing them going to or from the shower or seeing each other. it wasn't shocking, we didn't stare, but we didn't scream with fright either.

8. In George Orwell's 1984, with the Junior Anti-Sex-League, the Party imposes antisexualism upon its members to eliminate the personal sexual attachments that diminish political loyalty. Julia describes Party fanaticism as "sex gone sour"; except during the love affair with Julia, Winston suffers recurring ankle inflammation, an Oedipal allusion to sexual repression.[citation needed] In Part III, O'Brien tells Winston that neurologists are working to extinguish the orgasm; the mental energy required for prolonged worship requires authoritarian suppression of the libido, a vital instinct.

9. I'm a Nordic Heathen and we have no sex-specific issues. As long as everyone is in agreement and of legal age, it's cool with us. What other people do in the privacy of their own homes is also none of our business so long as everyone is of legal age and consenting, so we don't peer through the neighbor's windows and whatnot. It's a dogma-free faith and we like it that way. We have brains to use to determine right action and/or honorable behaviors and being in agreement with one another is part of that. That's why we don't need the hard and fast rules other faiths seem to have.

I feel that faiths that put strict sexual laws into place for its adherents run the risk of having those abused. The only sexual immorality the bible wants you to be concerned with is your own, yet there seem to be a lot of bible thumpers who would make others follow the rules of their faith when it comes to sexuality. I'm quite certain that was NOT the intent of those rules. They are for the adherents, not the neighbors.

10. I think my worldview effects my perception of sex and effects my religion... you could say that my religion effects my view of sex, but I wonder if it's really jsut my overall worldview that effects it most.

Sexuality, the desire for sexual release, intimacy and intercourse, are natural parts of the human experience and should not be a cause for shame or emberessment. Sex should be handled with a great deal of respect and responsability to prevent hurting each other.
-Scarlet

11. There's some great nun-fetish sites out there that wouldn't exist without reliigon.


There's something about a wimple.....

12. Yes, I believe that religion has affected mindsets about sex. As much as I think organized religion causes a lot of problems in the world, I also believe that it keeps a lot of things under control. Not to say that some non-religious people wouldn't wait or whatever, but without religion, there wouldn't be a reason to wait. As bad as these things are, I believe that STDs, unplanned pregnancies, divorce, and sexual perversion would be a whole lot worse without religion.

Personally, I believe in God. I don't like to say that I am religious because that brings up the connotations of constrictive rules and whatnot but I believe in the God of the bible and in having a personal relationship with him. Because of this, I believe that sex is a wonderful thing. It's for so much more than reproductive reasons. This being said, I believe that sex is meant for a man and his wife only. I believe that sex joins you as one body and that you should only form that bond with one person ever. There are so many non-"religious" reasons for saving yourself for one person only.

I don't believe that God is about giving us rules. He doesn't want to put restrictions on us but he does only if doing otherwise. Having sex outside of marriage does lead to problems, both emotional and physical, and so it is good to wait.