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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on May 23, 2011, 02:43:55 PM
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon May-23-11 03:24 PM
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Religious people ‘plagued with guilt’ over sex, study says
The more religious people are, the less they enjoy sex. And, accordingly, atheists have much better sex than religious people.
That’s according to a new study from Kansas University, which found that religious people are “plagued with guilt†during and after sex. Meanwhile, the Daily Mail reports, atheists feel much better about themselves, even though both groups carried out the same activities, including masturbation, oral sex, watching porn and having affairs.
“Our data shows that people feel very guilty about their sexual behaviour when they are religious,†Ray told the Daily Mail, “but that does not stop them: it just makes them feel bad.â€
From the report:
All of the people who were questioned were found to have sex around the same number of times a week. They also became sexually active at similar ages. But devoutly religious people rated their sex lives far lower than atheists. They also admitted to strong feelings of guilt afterwards.
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.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2011/05/23/religio... /
This goes a long way in explaining why Right Wingers are driven to legislate morality. They're driven by guilt.
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I would think it would be just the opposite. Religions all preach that sex is within the confines of marriage meaning that you have one partner for life. So if you live by that rule I can't see any reason for feeling guilt over sex. The only time I ever felt any guilt over sex was when it wasn't in a monogamous relationship.
Of course now, if the people they surveyed were all cheating on their spouses then that would explain the results.
hifiguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon May-23-11 03:30 PM
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3. So many of the uber-religulous types seem to hate
the physicality of their own humanity - any sensory pleasure of any kind is EEEEE-VULLLL. I guess that's what drives them to deny the truth of evolution as well. We are the human ANIMAL no matter what they want to believe. Too bad that they can't accept the truth and just deal with it.
I'm an agnostic and I don't view humans as just an animal. Humans have abilities that no other creature on earth has.
And this notion that religious people are against anything pleasurable is wrong. They just assign responsibility with that pleasure, like being married and so forth. The DUmmies on the other hand think humans should be like animals and screw anyone that catches their eye.
LadyHawkAZ (280 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon May-23-11 03:34 PM
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7. "Sex = bad, dirty, sinful. Save it for someone you love"~ God
Granted it's been awhile since I looked at a Bible, but I don't recall sex itself being an evil act, it just has to be with your spouse in order to be legit.
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I'm a Christian and I have lots of great sex. I don't feel guilty about it either.
KC
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1159191
I would think it would be just the opposite. Religions all preach that sex is within the confines of marriage meaning that you have one partner for life. So if you live by that rule I can't see any reason for feeling guilt over sex. The only time I ever felt any guilt over sex was when it wasn't in a monogamous relationship.
Of course now, if the people they surveyed were all cheating on their spouses then that would explain the results.
I expect that's the essence of the problem; they didn't really measure what they thought they were measuring (Or at least as it was reported). I expect the guilt concerned primarily the circumstances which led to and culminated in the sex, more than the sex itself. For that matter the atheists and agnostics don't exactly seem to have had completely clear consciences, either.
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What a pant load. This is the same as saying a liberal funded study found that liberals were smarter/happier/more secure/...
We all know that liberals are some of the least happy at whatever is going in their life than conservatives. We are the glass is half full and they are the glass is half empty people. For proof I present the insane asylums of DU, KOS, HuffPo... Not a really happy person there in unless they are spouting hate of a conservative or glee of some malady in a conservative's life.
You lurking DUches know this to be true.
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Guilt...what's that? Do DUmmies feel guilty about anything? :lmao:
DUmmies don't feel guilt about sex...they feel regret...regret that they haven't screwed more people...same sex...animals...reptiles.
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I have to wonder who exactly these folks are polling. No pun intended. While I'm just a fictional spirit-guide I am a Baptist fictional spirit-guide. I have great sex (my wife might not, but I do my spirit-guide best). I don't feel any guilt.
This goes a long way in explaining why Right Wingers are driven to legislate morality. They're driven by guilt.
And you guys are driven by confusion. You are so confused that you think an orifice designed solely for egress should be regularly used for ingress.
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I have to wonder who exactly these folks are polling. No pun intended. While I'm just a fictional spirit-guide I am a Baptist fictional spirit-guide. I have great sex (my wife might not, but I do my spirit-guide best). I don't feel any guilt.
As I recall, Baptist women are allowed to enjoy it, as long as they don't do it standing up, because that would be too much like dancing.
:-)
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I have to wonder who exactly these folks are polling. No pun intended. While I'm just a fictional spirit-guide I am a Baptist fictional spirit-guide. I have great sex (my wife might not, but I do my spirit-guide best). I don't feel any guilt.
And you guys are driven by confusion. You are so confused that you think an orifice designed solely for egress should be regularly used for ingress.
You get points for using the words "Ingress" and "egress".
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As I recall, Baptist women are allowed to enjoy it, as long as they don't do it standing up, because that would be too much like dancing.
:-)
:-) It's funny, but it's also true in a lot of cases. I asked someone once what the big deal was about dancing and got told how wrong it was. Then I asked about them dancing in the Old Testament. The conversation ended because that was different.
Believe it or not I've actually attended two Baptist dances. One when I had just turned 19. I spent all my time at that one dancing with the older ladies because one of them mentioned something about liking the old music. I brought out my box of tapes of Elvis, Buddy Holly, Chubby Checker, etc. and cut the rug with the chaperones.
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DUmmies don't feel guilt about sex...they feel regret...regret that they haven't screwed more people...same sex...animals...reptiles.
A typical DUmmie explaining their sex life:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veWAbUEBBQE[/youtube]
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liberals pervert everything they touch. Clinton proudly cheated on his wife, and it never hurt him politically.
Liberals inject gay sex into children's classrooms.
As long as its not a priest, liberals will not condemn pedophilia.
The OP revels in a mythical misery of Christians. I'm not wracked with guilt-none of us are. But neither is my life defined by depravity.
If I had a choice, I would choose a little guilt over wallowing in the liberal cesspool.
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liberals pervert everything they touch. Clinton proudly cheated on his wife, and it never hurt him politically.
Liberals inject gay sex into children's classrooms.
As long as its not a priest, liberals will not condemn pedophilia.
The OP revels in a mythical misery of Christians. I'm not wracked with guilt-none of us are. But neither is my life defined by depravity.
If I had a choice, I would choose a little guilt over wallowing in the liberal cesspool.
Honestly, guilt is not a wholly bad thing. When we do something wrong, we should feel guilty. Yes, it is bad if you are so crippled by guilt that you are miserable, but that situation would likely have its roots in some sort of mental illness.
If somebody has an affair and feels no guilt over it, then that person likely isn't somebody I would care to associate with.
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I guess these are the religious people that make the DUmmies so mad because we have too many children. It's all that horrendous guilt causing "lousy" sex. Really. :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
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You can't have a good sex life if you are religious? I guess DH and I didn't get the memo.
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Libs, like the boy primitive, are constantly trying to pigeon-hole conservatives into being viewed in a way that can make them feel superior. It doesn't work, but it doesn't stop they from hoping something will eventually stick. Why they feel the need to do this is a study unto itself, but it does explain at lot of their inability to remain focused and to move legislation to their favor at the pace in which they desire it to happen.
OTOH, we don't have to make up things about them, they parade their inferiority and stupidity in front of us everyday. We just C&P it.
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Ironic considering how DU flushes any thread with a sexual nature and gays are relegated to a ghetto forum by reflex.
Here at the ol' CU our threads are pretty open and only go to the SB if they cross a certain line...and by "line" I mean "Gina puts in an appearance".
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Ironic considering how DU flushes any thread with a sexual nature and gays are relegated to a ghetto forum by reflex.
Here at the ol' CU our threads are pretty open and only go to the SB if they cross a certain line...and by "line" I mean "Gina puts in an appearance".
Ummm . . . just where are you, SSB? (The rest of the sentence I can agree with. :tongue: )
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Ummm . . . just where are you, SSB? (The rest of the sentence I can agree with. :tongue: )
D'oh!
Can I just plead to not having had coffe yet?
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D'oh!
Can I just plead to not having had coffe yet?
Yes . . . :lmao: :rotf: :tongue:
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Yes . . . :lmao: :rotf: :tongue:
OMG!
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
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As long as its not a priest, liberals will not condemn pedophilia.
Heck, didn't one of the gay DUmmies have a boyfriend who was a pedophile? Wasn't the DUmp reaction, "Really? Ho-hum."
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Heck, didn't one of the gay DUmmies have a boyfriend who was a pedophile? Wasn't the DUmp reaction, "Really? Ho-hum."
Which one? Lots of DUmmies have been admitted pedo's and/or supporters of NAMBLA.
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It seems that sooner or later every thread starts moving in the direction of the plagiarizing drunkard Will Pitt.
He's the magic man.
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Just goes to show that athiest liberals can work a glory hole at the local truck stop and not feel guilty about it. They get extra DUmp cred if they argue that they charged for it because their bennies ran out.
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I just had to look into this a little... it appears that ALL the respondents had left their religion at some point in the past, most at adolescence.
Respondents reported higher levels of sexual satisfaction after leaving religion, depending on how conservative their religious upbringing...
Once people left religion, over 50% saw an improvement in their sex life, 29.6% saw no change, and 2.2% thought it was worse...
The large majority or participants reported their current affiliation as Atheist or Agnostic (90.2%). The rest described themselves as humanist, spiritual, secularist or “other.â€
The overall sample in our survey is 47%, 30 or younger and 61.1%, 35 or younger.
So, they posted this survey on an atheist site, http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ , and questioned only atheists that had once belonged to some religion. Most were very young, under 35, and many had left their religion at adolescence. So the questions absolutely did not at all consider people who remained religious, and obviously very few inside long term marriages (if any at all.) So this mind-blowing survey pretty much boils down to "Do religious adolescents sometimes feel guilty...and do they get over it as they grow up?" Wow, no wonder this guy was able to obtain exactly the results he expected. ::) ::) ::)