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10.06.2024

How and Why Religiousness Influences Sexual Health: a Review

verfasst von: G. Tyler Lefevor, Sydney A. Sorrell, Samuel J. Skidmore

Erschienen in: Current Sexual Health Reports | Ausgabe 3/2024

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Abstract

Purpose of Review

We examined the various ways that religiousness influences sexual health, elucidating the mechanisms responsible for both helpful and harmful effects.

Recent Findings

Religious beliefs, behavior, and belonging influence sexual health by (a) discouraging specific sexual behaviors, (b) discouraging sex generally, (c) encouraging sex only in a heterosexual marriage, (d) encouraging sex only for procreation, (e) framing sex as a sacred spiritual act, (f) providing a community of support, and (g) reinforcing sexual norms. These beliefs, behaviors, and sense of belonging may undermine or support sexual health knowledge, sexual functioning, sexual satisfaction, perceptions of compulsive sexual behavior, recovery from sexual violence, sexually conservative behavior, sex anxiety, and sex guilt/shame.

Summary

Religious beliefs, behaviors, and sense of belonging simultaneously undermine and support sexual health. “Both/and” approaches that hold this dialectic undermining and support are more helpful in guiding future work rather than “either/or” approaches.

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Titel: How and Why Religiousness Influences Sexual Health: a Review
verfasst von: G. Tyler Lefevor
Sydney A. Sorrell
Samuel J. Skidmore
Publikationsdatum: 10.06.2024
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Current Sexual Health Reports / Ausgabe 3/2024
Print ISSN: 1548-3584
Elektronische ISSN: 1548-3592
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11930-024-00390-5

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