ATHEISTS DO IT SHAMELESSLY
May. 25th, 2011 12:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM: Atheists have better sex lives than religious people, who are troubled by feelings of guilt after orgasm, according to science.
A new study by researchers at Kansas University finds that believers and non-believers all cop to activities such as masturbation, watching pornography, having oral sex and pursuing affairs, but followers of religion enjoy them less.
Which may seem like an obvious result. But maybe not.
I mean, sure, you’d expect religious people to feel more guilty about sexual activity after the fact. But you’d think that would make them enjoy the actual sex more, not less. Forbidden fruit and all.
But then I’ve always suspected that the real reason evangelical Christians want to keep all the sexual taboos intact is to make sex more exciting for them whilst keeping the kink level within their narrow comfort zones.
It’s just a theory, mind.
No shame,
This is dF
A new study by researchers at Kansas University finds that believers and non-believers all cop to activities such as masturbation, watching pornography, having oral sex and pursuing affairs, but followers of religion enjoy them less.
Strict religions such as Mormons ranked highest on the scale of sexual guilt. Their average score was 8.19 out of 10. They were followed closely behind by Jehovah's Witness, Pentecostal, Seventh Day Adventist, and Baptist.
Catholics rated their levels of sexual guilt at 6.34 while Lutherans came slightly lower at 5.88 . In contrast, atheists and agnostics ranked at 4.71 and 4.81 respectively.
Catholics rated their levels of sexual guilt at 6.34 while Lutherans came slightly lower at 5.88 . In contrast, atheists and agnostics ranked at 4.71 and 4.81 respectively.
Which may seem like an obvious result. But maybe not.
I mean, sure, you’d expect religious people to feel more guilty about sexual activity after the fact. But you’d think that would make them enjoy the actual sex more, not less. Forbidden fruit and all.
But then I’ve always suspected that the real reason evangelical Christians want to keep all the sexual taboos intact is to make sex more exciting for them whilst keeping the kink level within their narrow comfort zones.
Overheard in the men’s room at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference:
“These gawdamn liberals and their gawdamn permissiveness, it’s getting out of hand, A.J. There’s hardcore sex everywhere you look these days – double-penetration in prime time, bukkake on Sundays, free dildos for the kids, nothing’s sacred anymore.”
“Don’t I know it. All my filthy desires have been maxxed out like a Congressman’s charge account. Time was all I had to see was some buxom bitch in a tight sweater to get it up. Now I gotta subscribe to Chix With Dicks just to get a gawdamn erection and hope the press don’t find out, and between the gawdamn Facebooks and Twitters it’s only as matter of time. Call that progress, cos I don’t.”
“These gawdamn liberals and their gawdamn permissiveness, it’s getting out of hand, A.J. There’s hardcore sex everywhere you look these days – double-penetration in prime time, bukkake on Sundays, free dildos for the kids, nothing’s sacred anymore.”
“Don’t I know it. All my filthy desires have been maxxed out like a Congressman’s charge account. Time was all I had to see was some buxom bitch in a tight sweater to get it up. Now I gotta subscribe to Chix With Dicks just to get a gawdamn erection and hope the press don’t find out, and between the gawdamn Facebooks and Twitters it’s only as matter of time. Call that progress, cos I don’t.”
It’s just a theory, mind.
No shame,
This is dF
