Wherever sexually restrictive religions invade, they bring the tools of repression with them – fear of punishment, shame if caught, guilt that the deity watches and terror of punishment. Islam, Christianity and Judaism, with their patriarchal, asexual god, have systemically overcome local sexual ideas throughout the world and infected cultures with sex-negative practices.

Wherever sexually restrictive religions invade, they bring the tools of repression with them – fear of punishment, shame if caught, guilt that the deity watches and terror of punishment. Islam, Christianity and Judaism, with their patriarchal, asexual god, have systemically overcome local sexual ideas throughout the world and infected cultures with sex-negative practices.

– Darrel Ray –

Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality

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