What strategies help reconcile sexual pleasure with adherence to religious ideals?
Religion plays an important role in the lives of many people around the world. Many religions have guidelines for...
Individuals face a constant challenge in balancing their own sexual desires, pleasures, and religious beliefs. This is because religious morals often prohibit certain acts, but personal interests may...
What are the psychological strategies for reconciling human desire with religious ideals?
Some people believe that religion is an important part of their lives and strive to live according to its...
Believers have been struggling for centuries with how to deal with their desires and the teachings of their religion regarding them. Some religions, like Islam, forbid all forms of sexual activity...
Internalized religious sexual guilt is an experience that many individuals who identify with a religion may have. It refers to the feeling of shame or guilt associated with sexual thoughts, desires,...
The cultural and religious norms of Pakistan dictate that physical intimacy between individuals is restricted to marriage.
These norms also require that married couples must maintain their...
What emotional strategies are used to reconcile sexual desire with religious prohibition? This is a question that has been asked for centuries by people who follow religions that forbid certain types...
The psychological strategies that believers employ to reconcile erotic desire with religious teaching vary greatly depending on the individual's personal beliefs, cultural context, and the specific...
The study presented below explores the experiences of Mexican Mormon couples related to psychological tensions between their religious sexual expectations and private erotic desires, and its...
In unipolar religious societies, how are sexual behaviors restricted, and what strategies enable private erotic fulfillment under doctrinal control?
How are sexual behaviors restricted in unipolar...