I find it funny they down sex as sin, yet thier banging like rabbits pushing out babies like mad. I don't understand any religious aspects, don't even try. Would rather talk about sexual habits of a house fly

Lol - Masturbating Mormons

In my opinion, keeping people from experiencing sexual stimulation is a key component to controlling people. It's part of the process of dehumanizing people and removing their sense of individuality, conditioning their personality to accept subjugation. The obsession and subsequent deviant behavior are symptoms of the human mind's rejection of this process. Their sexuality manifest in strange ways because they eschew healthy outlets for that energy.

Take something normal and make it shameful then heap a bunch of guilt on it and you have a lot of control. In the Catholic religion teens and young adults were compelled to confess their carnal sins.

Just a thought: I wonder if the priests that listened became corrupted by the details of the act? Sexual thoughts were also considered a sin. Maybe it is one of the reasons they abused so many children.

It's all about controlling the people. Imposing rules about sex controls the population.

I think that religious leaders realized that virtually everyone has sexual urges, and if they could make people feel fear, guilt and/or shame over those urges, then they have control over them.

Most thinking people realize we are animals with instincts and drive, just like other animals. Sex i something that virtually everyone (other than perhaps asexuals) participate in to some extent. If you want to control people, then what better way than to make them feel guilt, fer and shame about a most basic natural drive/instinct that is present in virtually everyone?

Controlling female sexuality has been a favorite pastime of the Abrahamic religions since before Abraham — largely about property ownership and inheritance in a patriarchal society. But the broader objections to sexual activity seem to stem from the dualistic philosophy that emerged within the church during the Middle Ages and informed the theology through the puritanical age and into the more conservative mindsets today. Dualism at that time was a concept that the world has two natures, physical and spiritual, and that the spirit is of God while the physical is of the devil. That being the case, then, the spirit was to be nurtured through prayer and such, while the flesh was to be denied (e.g., only enough food to survive and work the fields, sex only for procreation and no enjoyment whatsoever). This seems to have significantly led to negative views of sex that persist today.

Them that controls the bootay controls the world.

They are afraid of unwanted babbyes

Patriarchal religions are afraid of women's sexuality is my vastly over-generalized first thought.