Sexual Urges, Society, And Religion

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purity in North America. Literal interpretation of the Bible limited many sexual behaviours. Since the middle-ages, the church had outlawed masturbation, anal, oral and external-martial sex. Sex was for procreation only. Many passages in the Bible were used to support this belief and moral system.
Then Judah told Onan to sleep with his brother's wife,
to do his duty as the husband's brother and raise up issue for
his brother. But Onan knew that the issue would not be his;
so whenever he slept with his brother's wife, he spilled his
seed on the ground. So as not to raise up issue for his
brother. What he did was wicked in the Lord's sight, an the
Lord took his life.
( Genesis 38: 8-10 )

Homosexuality was also a grave sin and seen not only as morally wrong but the doing of the Devil. The term "faggot" actually comes from the name of the wood used to burn homosexuals. Sodom and Gomorrah became the critical example of everything morally wrong, especially homosexual ...

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the result of the Devil conquering over his Spiritual self.

These two wills are in constant battle with one another;
they are absolutely antithetical and desire completely
different objects...

The formulation of the carnal self, that is, the will that is
impelled towards sinful objects, lies behind Augustine's radical
reformation of sexuality. From its foundation, Christianity was
antithetical to sexuality in a strongly gendered way... Rather
than talking about sex as an act, he talked about it as an
interior state, a triumph of the carnal will over the spiritual
will. All sexuality, all sensual pleasure involved the triumph of
the carnal will; since sin was located ...

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