I do not write about religion course ErosBlog. It is a sex blog, religion is not a blog, or even a political blog. But when it comes to sex, religion is often the 800 pounds gorilla in the room, which is probably why I « will burn in hell » e-mails on a régulière.Ici ‘s College sex educator Emily Nagoski in it calls his position even more offensive: Religion is bad for your sex life. I do not want it does not help, I mean is actively destructrice.Il are exceptions. I had a good friend in grad school who was a religious conservative. His faith community strongly supported his decisions about his sexuality, and everything seems to have gone well for her. No irreparable harm done to my connaissance.Mais broadly, religion is bad, both individually and culturally. Individually, the result of inhibitions, shame, fear, guilt, prejudice against others, and acceptance of gender stereotypes. Culturally it leads to oppression of women and sexual minorities, the spread of the disease (the stigma is as much a means of communication as any body fluid), and obstruction of the scientific study of the I sexualité.Il ‘I dit.Allez ahead and comment on how a religion or other is not like that. Tell me about how your faith tells you to celebrate God’s gift of organization. I know. Whatever. You try to run your religion for you. Good luck with ça.Je say « do not yell at me, shouting at her » but that would be cowardly. I am not an educator, nor sex, nor any other type of accredited experts on sex but I agree with what she said. It meets all my readings and observations.C is what makes his position relevant ErosBlog. Well, over this small pair of points much later in his post: None of this is facilitated by the fact that most of the work I do related to religion is to try to untangle the knots on religion knit a person’s sexuality. In my experience, 90% or more of cases religion has caused some form of damage to a person’s sexuality. It is sometimes indirect – as a person must learn that in fact, homosexuals are completely fine – and sometimes it’s as direct as it is – as the person is in recovery from childhood sexual abuse by their leader ‘église.Pour say nothing of the systematic oppression of women, violence is justified by the fairy tales of idiots and fools (teams of virgins in heaven, awaiting the arrival of a suicide), and devastating consequences for public health « morality. « Now I’m going to enjoy myself. Because, however, true that the block quotation above may be, they are not why post Emily made me want to shout, » Amen, sister, preach the baby ‘ Gospel!  » No, what happened when she got into why religion is absent from his own life. focus first sentence added by me: But the worst thing about religion is that fact that I can hardly believe the crap because you want. No religion, no matter what liberal escapes cela.Je acknowledge a bias. For various reasons, not immediately relevant to this blog, I think that faith / religion is an innate part of human psychology. I think the belief of the human family is invisible in the sky or product or by-product of evolution. However, there is no apparent reason, is not innate psychology MY. I had the ability of faith (in the absence of any particular religion) when I was a teenager, but my more developed prefrontal cortex, the more it became impossible for me to believe in ghosts, fairies, friends invisible, etc. He was completely lost when I was 25 ans.Donc, I am aware that partial.Je faith experience is both real and important for many people, and I know that offends them when I speaks of faith as a form of self-delusion, but I do not really old do not understand (like, imagine watching a burrow its owners have sex), how a person can choose to believe in chose.Ils some choose to believe because they feel good. And I think that what characterizes most people. I think most people are capable of thinking more or less what they want the sound. Indeed, we have made a virtue of it. Just Believe. This is the secret, you sais.Eh Well, shit, man. If I could choose to believe what I wanted, I would also stop believing in global warming and start to believe in angels. But I can not. I can not choose to believe anything, I think what seems to be, given the evidence and experience, is true. As evidence of change and experience, the fact that I crois.Tout to fait.Moi also lack the ability to « decide » to believe in something. I never had. I never understood. Like Emily, I do not understand. This. Is. No. Calculer.Toute my life, people of faith have been urging me to join them. « Just Believe », I am told, and everything will be peachy. « Just assemble the puzzle, they might as well say, and when all is done and the picture clear and beautiful on your coffee table, parts the puzzle magically arrive in the mail. « Like Emily, I can not do. I do not know how to put the puzzle together before the parts arrive. Do not have the capacity. At one time, around the age of 10 when all my friends were Christians Gospel, I wanted to have, but I did not. And now I do not want if I could get it. This is not correct to believe that shit because you voulez.Les reasons it’s bad for sexuality, Emily covered. The other reason, it is not correct for the most part beyond the scope of a sex blog. But it is simply pas.Voir this message in its original location ErosBlog: The Blog sexe.Si you read this anywhere, but in a feed reader, it has been scraped without permission. Feed obtained by: (71 112 27 … 213) Similar Sex Blogging: there is a line, nor is it ItThe This Side Of Porn is more powerful than ecstasy SwordHeavenly « … And I will make you fishers of men. « Lake of Fire, Here I Come! Christian sexual GuiltC. Lewis S. Christian sex