Regardless of whether or not religion has a valid purpose, is sex something religion should be concerned with? Why?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/22/2022 01:43PM by auntsukey.

Sex, or 'humping' as it's called by the cognoscenti, is hard to engage in when you're poor and not cute. Therefore, ways and means of 'humping' despite being poor and not cute have always been sought out.

Religion allowed poor and not cute people to hump.

The invention of money also helped not cute people to hump.

The notion that 'not humping' makes one holy, or holier, is basically Aesop's fabled fox telling the world that the grapes were likely sour, implying that abstinence is groovy.

Is it possible to fake being an RM? Then one could get grapes cheap.

Is this a chicken and egg question?

Should religion be concerned with lying and stealing?
Or murder?
Or generally being an all-around d*ck?

In cultures where sex is considered a moral issue, religions focus on it.
Just like they do with all the other moral issues.

We happen to live in a time when sex can be separated from reproduction.
For a lot of people it is no longer moral or immoral, so it seems weird that religions make such a big deal out of it.

I resent the implications being hurled at ducks!

At least the English know that the Lord loves a duck.

My apologies for the confusion.
I was using the word "deck", not "duck".

You see, where I come from, there is an expression, "Don't be a deck."

Any time someone said they were going to build a deck, we would all just roll our eyes.
Decks are typically unattractive appendages that are difficult to maintain properly and are never quite as big as you want them to be.

Apology accepted there, mate!

EOD frequently boasts of his big redwood deck but from what I hear, he only has a little porch with a potted plant.

It's all about control....and the LDS takes it a step further and dictates your underwear.

I would say in the LDS church control is a big part of it. Basically the endowment is all about surrendering your life to the church.

https://religionnews.com/2017/12/14/for-christian-conservatives-its-all-about-sex-and-its-been-that-way-for-a-long-time/

. . . but she's better at articulating it

Fer grins I'd throw in envy, too - they're fundamentally unhappy people who squeak when they walk and -
- why, if I'm hating life, I want everyone else to be hating life too.
That's how prohibition came about.

What is off limits for religions to be concerned with?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/22/2022 06:38PM by Elder Berry.

I liked the original question better!!

:) on my phone is a lot harder.

Just leave EOD's micro-nose alone.

Does it grow if you rub it in something?

Some things are too horrifying to contemplate.

Before there was reliable birth control sexual matters were not only a religious concern but a social and government one. Unwanted bastard children could become a huge problem and burden. So the solution was to social shame people into only having sex with who you were married to and you were legally obligated to provide for the children you made.

It’s carry over from that. I’m sure there were good reasons not to eat pork or shellfish in ancient times. Certain religions still follow those old health codes.

Rubicon Wrote:
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> Before there was reliable birth control sexual
> matters were not only a religious concern but a
> social and government one.

Religions weren't "concerned" with sex before 1960?