If u look back u can see that most all religions start with the virgin birth and most want people to be bonded b4 they have any intercorse. I assume that all religions just want power over its followers but why stiffle a source of human happeiness like that.
2007-06-01 16:02:04 · 41 answers · asked by kyle M 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Man, i did't expect to get such a good response. Everyone has really put their own thoughts into this one. My problem is that i don't believe that sex should be exclusive to realtionship. I try to love all people and I believe that it can be shared with friends as a long as safe practices are followed. I believe that making people be in a honest relationship just to have sex makes people tempted to go out and have random sex intead of safe with their close friends. You could consider many things uncontrolable desires, but i think smart people can have safe sex and not be addicted.
Humans are not meant to be monogomistic.
2007-06-01 16:28:49 · update #1
I also understand that not all religions do this, i have looked into neo-paganism and some hindu.
We are not cavemen anymore we can control human populations and we can use sex to just have pleasure because that is what we strive for is to be happy.
2007-06-01 16:31:27 · update #2
I'm a Pagan. Our religion most certainly do not supress human sexuality. We encourage sexuality in all its forms. We believe that sex is a beautiful gift to be shared with love and in expression of the creation of the world and the continuing life of the earth.
Religions who supress human sexuality are anti-love and anti-life.
2007-06-01 16:14:59 · answer #1 · answered by Nightlight 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wow, what a generalization. You've clearly never read the any of the Hindu Scriptures, have you? When the Vedas mention the hairy organ, guess what it is referring to. There is also the Kama Sutra - a whole sutra devoted to kama, i.e. pleasure (and a particular kind of pleasure). And don't forget the Song of Songs in the Bible, too! But the Biblical literature was produced in a patriarchal honor-shame culture that was fanatically concerned about female virginity, and then passed under the influence of Greco-Roman philosophical ideas that tended to devalue the body. You should see the stuff that didn't make it into the Bible, like the Acts of Paul and Thecla: "Blessed are the chaste...", or the Acts of Thomas, in which he persuades a couple on their wedding night to forego intercourse!
2007-06-01 16:10:15 · answer #2 · answered by jamesfrankmcgrath 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You obviously haven't read much about religions. Christianity recognizes sex as a gift from God, but it is only to be shared by a man and his wife. That is moral, in most religions they see it as a sacred gift to one another. I like it that way, it shouldn't be cheapened to the point that it has no more significance than a hand shake or we're in trouble. And that will be the beginning of the end. How would you feel if you went into a store with your mother or father and you found out they had slept with 50% of the people there from the cashier to the manangers, your opinion of them would go way down no doubt. You will be a father some day, how will you feel if your kid found that out about you or your wife? Do you see now?
2007-06-01 16:12:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Happiness? How about the 14 year old girl with a baby and no Father to help support it or the 17 year old boy with aids or on and on. Mostly how about that cheap feeling like this is all your good for or wanted for?
The Christian Faith if it is taught right, is not about suppression but, about raising things to a whole new level. Human sexuality is a good thing in the bounds of marriage. That is all Christianity says is respect the bounds of marriage where the two REALLY become one flesh, so much so that a combination being is created.
2007-06-01 16:10:46 · answer #4 · answered by Midge 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Perhaps it is because when people have sex out of a bonded relationship, you end up with STD's and unwanted pregnancies.
Obviously people who have affairs also end up with this happening, but this is also frowned upon by most religions.
I believe sex between two people who love each other is a wonderful thing, but what is so great about having sex with various individuals? Some that people don't even know their name?
Everyone has a right to what they wish with their own body, but I do not see how it is such a bad thing for people to believe that sex belongs within a trusted commited relationship.
2007-06-01 16:08:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sex is one of those temptations which takes one's mind off God and puts it on self. Darkness uses any means it can to break down people, be it through sex, money, drugs, alcohol and greed.
The sexual union between a man and women was intended to procreate the species. It has been perverted to great extents. We can realizing that the pleasure of sex is a drive for self happiness and a temptation away from God. That is possibly why many religions have established rules about it. It is to control people from harming others or themselves with it. It was to help prevent the tearing down of the family unit.
The Idea that we are supposed to be God like in out actions was a motivating factor in creating such laws or rules. For instance, the covering up of one's body helps to eliminate the temptation that the eye beholds. There is a verse in the bible that says, Temptation leads to Lust , Lust leads to sin and sin leads to death. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. We have all seen the dis-ease that is spread by promiscuous acts of sex through out the world. Aids, herpes etc. have been transmitted by the lust factor.
I don't think it is to stifle happiness. On the contrary, I think it's taboos and Laws were made , to prevent unhappiness.
Rev. TomCat
2007-06-01 16:25:35 · answer #6 · answered by Rev. TomCat 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All religions do no longer suppress human sexuality. numerous them do, yet many don't. there is not any virgin start in Buddhism, nor in any community American religions that i'm conscious of. historic Greek and Roman religions did no longer have virgins spurting out infants, the two. there are various different examples.
2016-10-09 07:12:58 · answer #7 · answered by kylee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not ALL religions repress human sexuality. Most of the many Pagan religions were (and still are) quite open and free about sexuality. It wasn't until the repression of the Jews and then the Christian Church began to spread throughout Europe that sex suddenly became a dirty word.
2007-06-01 16:46:38 · answer #8 · answered by meg3f 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually most pagan religions don't try to suppress human sexuality. In fact, the high priestess of the coven I belong to refuses to do a hand-fasting for anyone until they've lived together as a married couple for at least a year and a day. Sexuality is something to be explored and enjoyed (when you're physically and emotionally ready), not something that needs to be stifled or something that should make you feel guilty or ashamed.
2007-06-01 16:07:36 · answer #9 · answered by Brooke 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Not in Hindu religion where they even have illustrated a thousand sexual position to enjoy.
I also think you are still sorrounded by people who live in the dark ages. Look outside, haven't you heard of couples having children or least a child before getting married? So many even have children and never marry. I also have a woman friend who have three first born child from three different men.
And they are devotees who go to church regularly.
If you are suppressed, change your religion or lie in your activities. Everyone in the religions have something to lie about anyway.
2007-06-01 16:17:32 · answer #10 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋