The relationship between sex and religion is complicated and often contradictory. While many religions discourage sex outside of marriage, they also acknowledge its importance for procreation and...
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: How religion impacts your sexuality: guilt, shame, and suppression
When individuals experience conflict between their sexual desires and their religious beliefs, it can have profound psychological impacts. This essay will explore how this internal struggle can lead...
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: Sexual conflict and its psychological impacts: how religious beliefs can create emotional struggles
Sexual restraint is often associated with religious beliefs and practices that promote abstinence until marriage or prohibit extramarital sex. While these values may seem noble, they can have...
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: Sexual restraint: prolonged abstinence can lead to serious psychological and physical issues
Climate anxiety is the fear that humans will be unable to reverse the effects of climate change before it becomes irreversible. This can manifest in many ways, including feeling guilty about one's...
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: Reverse sexual expression and intimacy in response to climate anxiety amidst religious norms
I will explain how religious beliefs can affect an individual's feelings about sexual rejection and sexual dysfunction. Sexual encounters are often seen as acts of sin in many religions, such as...
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: The impact of religion on sexual rejection and dysfunction: understanding how religious beliefs affect intimacy
Sexual pleasure is an integral part of human life, and it has been for millennia. It is something people enjoy, seek out, and share with others.
Some religions teach that sex for pleasure is...
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: Exploring the psychological effects of religious messages on sexual pleasure
Sexual shaming is a form of social conditioning that instills feelings of guilt, embarrassment, and humiliation around one's sexual desires, practices, and experiences. It can be transmitted through...
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: Understanding how religion shapes sexual shame and its effect on cognition & relationships
The need for intimacy and physical pleasure is a natural human instinct that can be expressed through various forms of sexual activity, including sexual intercourse.
Many religions impose...
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: Exploring the challenges of reconciling religiously mandated sexual restraint with erotic desire
Sexual abstinence is defined as the conscious refraining from engaging in sexual activity for moral or religious reasons. It can be voluntary or involuntary, temporary or permanent. Prolonged sexual...
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: The psychological consequences of prolonged sexual abstinence imposed by religious expectations
Religious teachings on premarital abstinence have been a significant aspect of cultural norms for centuries. These teachings are based on the belief that sexual activity outside of marriage is sinful...
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: The impact of religious teachings on young adults sexual identities and intimate relationships