Atheists Have Better Sex Lives
A study finds that in individuals, the stronger their religious beliefs were, the more powerful were their feelings of sexual guilt.
Atheists’ sex lives better than believers’
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Atheists enjoy much better sex lives than religious people who tend to be guilt-ridden during the act and for weeks afterwards, say researchers.
A study discovered that non-believers are more willing to discuss sexual fantasies and are more satisfied with their experiences.
Both groups admitted indulging in masturbation, watching porn, having oral sex and pursuing affairs. But believers did not enjoy the experiences as much, being overcome by intense feelings of regret after climaxing, thanks to the stigma created by their belief systems.
The findings emerged in the ‘Sex and Secularism’ survey of more than 14,500 people carried out by psychologist Darrel Ray and Amanda Brown from Kansas University, the Daily Mail reported.
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.
The study found that in individuals, the stronger their religious beliefs were, the more powerful were their feelings of sexual guilt afterwards.
[Hat Tip: Seymour.]
This study mentions nothing about chareidim. It mentions various christian sects feeling guilty about sex but as Chareidi Jews it is a mitzvah to have relations with your wife. On the contrary a single chareidi would feel guilty not being married. Studys in Israel have shown that the devout orthodox Jews are most happiest in life as compared to the rest of the society. This poll about atheists and christians has nothing to do with chareidim or orthodox Jews.
Posted by: HESHY | May 22, 2011 at 01:54 AM
whew!!!
Posted by: ruthie | May 22, 2011 at 02:37 AM
i'm not an atheist but i know that g-d also wants you to enjoy life...not feel fricking guilty over every little thing...is my sleeve long enough, will my neighbor see me sneaking off to the movies....
wow! a one night stand!
you know what some marriages are in the chareidi community? you idiot heshy...nothing but a glorified one night stand!!! AND THEN THEY'RE FUCKING STUCK WITH THAT PERSON.
if they're very very lucky, there's a love story there.
just to have sex....they have to get married....just for the sex...they gladly get married...GET REAL
Posted by: ruthie | May 22, 2011 at 03:01 AM
pure BS im ultra orthodox charedi and i have the best sex ever with my current wife
Posted by: moshy | May 22, 2011 at 03:26 AM
moshy...you're one of the lucky ones. i believe you...there a many happy couples...AND MORE UNHAPPY ONES FORCED INTO MARRIAGE BECAUSE THEY FELT HORNY.
truth.
Posted by: ruthie | May 22, 2011 at 03:57 AM
I'd love to eat ruthie bit she will probably taste bitter.
Posted by: Bench Kvetcher | May 22, 2011 at 07:04 AM
Kefira! Everyone knows that sex is only for procreation. Any enjoyment is issur! Yes, the rabbis of old said it was a man's duty to please his wife - but they couldn't actually have meant it, chos v'sholem! They must have been a little crazy that day.
Studys in Israel have shown that the devout orthodox Jews are most happiest in life as compared to the rest of the society.
Uh huh. Who commissioned these "studys" - the Edah HaChareidis Heilige Committee for the Eradication of Apikorsus?
Posted by: Jeff | May 22, 2011 at 07:17 AM
bench kvetcher....
hahahahahahaha.....
i bet you have a small dick. no doubt.
ha...i'm very sweet tasting...hahahahahaha
stop kvetching...you sound SO unsatisfied..and you probably couldn't make good love to a woman if you're life depended on it.
believe me...i can tell.
thank you for a good laugh. i really enjoyed your post.
not only do i taste very sweet...i'm not at all bitter...i'm just truly disappointed in a lot of the haredim.
i know how to have fun....my favorite hobby is sinning...you know everything really good is immoral, illegal or fattening.
you wouldn't know...you're got a small dick.
Posted by: ruthie | May 22, 2011 at 07:52 AM
Wow ruthie. One joke and you already know my dick size. I guess I had better respond to all those emails that seem to know my dick size as well. This way you can stop worrying about me. In the meantime my Harley awaits. Needed to get a big bike. Y'know, to compensate for size. Last person I was with was unable to fully accommodate. I really need to find a much taller woman. How tall are you? All my love.
Posted by: Bench Kvetcher | May 22, 2011 at 08:08 AM
your wife is not taller than me.
i know exactly who you are. you gave it away.
Posted by: ruthie | May 22, 2011 at 08:16 AM
oh! she tastes bitter? no surprise there...you know how happy the two of you are.
Posted by: ruthie | May 22, 2011 at 08:17 AM
Ruthie what gave it away? The emails? Where did I ever mention a wife?
Posted by: Bench Kvetcher | May 22, 2011 at 08:37 AM
I don't agree with this. As a Mormon, I don't see why any of us would have guilt about sex if you were married! Sex is ordained of God and a great thing, there's nothing guilt inducing about it.
Posted by: Sarah | May 22, 2011 at 08:48 AM
that is why shmaryahu,is holed up in his parents basement,a reclusive depressed self hating world hating piece of human garbage,
hey shmaryahu,tell us the truth, when was the last time a woman even looked at you,never mind slept with you?
Posted by: shmaryahu loves to drink chareidi blood | May 22, 2011 at 09:22 AM
Ruthie-what the f is the matter with you?-did your vibrator batteries die?-what a piece of work u r.
Posted by: tooclose2detroit | May 22, 2011 at 10:12 AM
Oh. come on. She's a piece of work? He began it, with a remark so tasteless I won't quote it.
The tone of this thread quickly degenerated into complete impropriety.
Posted by: Jeff | May 22, 2011 at 10:22 AM
true, but blogposts dont happen in a vacuum, and my history and observation of her is just that---she is, to put is nicer than I should, "some piece of work".
Posted by: tooclose2detroit | May 22, 2011 at 10:33 AM
I'm chareidi, and I absolutley have the best sex life ever. We are so so fulfilled, usually three to four times a week. except when my wife is a niddah, in which case we look forward to Leil Tvilah like we are getting married for the first time.
I also love my wife dearly.
I know that the Gerrers are not this way, but the rest of Chareidim have wonderful sex lives.
Posted by: Moish | May 22, 2011 at 10:38 AM
know that the Gerrers are not this way, but the rest of Chareidim have wonderful sex lives.
Posted by: Moish
thats kind of a broad extrapolation, Moish-great for you and your wife, and perhaps some of the friends that you have discussed it with (although tseems like a strange thing to discuss with your friends), but to say that "the rest of chareidim have wonderful sex lives" is, frankly, not only untrue, but pretty hard for you to have researched to know that info.
Posted by: tooclose2detroit | May 22, 2011 at 10:49 AM
Is there sex after death?
Posted by: Yochanan Lavie | May 22, 2011 at 10:55 AM
true, but blogposts dont happen in a vacuum, and my history and observation of her is just that---she is, to put is nicer than I should, "some piece of work".
I think Ruthie's input is valuable. If you had to live in Monsey, you'd be testy, too (not that I find her so).
Posted by: Jeff | May 22, 2011 at 10:59 AM
I know that the Gerrers are not this way
I've read that Gerrers customarily don't even like to be seen in public with their wives, to the point that they'll take separate routes to the same affair. Even other Hasidim find it odd.
You know the old joke - "Who was that lady I saw you with last night?" "That was no lady; that was my wife!" I understand a variation is told among Hasidim:
Hasid to a Gerrer friend: "Who was that lady I saw you with last night?"
Gerrer (alarmed): "Not my wife! Not my wife!"
Posted by: Jeff | May 22, 2011 at 11:01 AM
I think Ruthie's input is valuable. If you had to live in Monsey, you'd be testy, too (not that I find her so).
Posted by: Jeff
true, Monsey sux-but Ruthy sux also-if its not her posts about how "unbelievably lucky she is to have a black friend-o my god-what an honor!", she posted a while ago, or telling me that my thoughts suck because I havent gotten laid, I find her ideas to be as "valuable" as a bike without pedals.
Posted by: tooclose2detroit | May 22, 2011 at 11:47 AM
wow! this thread got ugly and nasty in a hurry.
for the record, i'm on ruthies side.
and is it really a surprise that those of us who are aware that the act of sex is just another evolved desire and action would know that there should be no guilt involved and that it has no godly implications or restrictions !!
Posted by: ah-pee-chorus | May 22, 2011 at 12:02 PM
true-tgot ugly in a hurry-o well-enjoy Sunday!!!
Posted by: tooclose2detroit | May 22, 2011 at 12:16 PM
I don't know... I never walked into a atheist while he is having sex. I have walked into a charedi couple.
Charedim need to learn to locked their doors.
What has been seen can not be unseen.
Posted by: aaa | May 22, 2011 at 12:46 PM
To the question above about if there is sex after death.
The soul is not able to do the sexual act.
After the resurrection of the dead there will be sex again for the bodies.
Posted by: aaa | May 22, 2011 at 12:49 PM
oh too close to detroit...you are misunderstanding me..i never mentioned about a black friend today....i spoke up and said the person used a race card.
please don't change my words or ideas. i have enough trouble writing in english.
i never said a word to you today...or are you heshy...????or bench kvetcher...what's the matter with you...i never said anything to you...
thank you to those WHO DID UNDERSTAND MY ENGLISH.
many thanks
Posted by: ruthie | May 22, 2011 at 01:11 PM
too close to detroit...hahaha. sorry/pardon i was thinking of another person not you..when i responded to you earlier....
you're bringing up things from a while ago...
o.k.
i hope you have a nice sunday..
Posted by: ruthie | May 22, 2011 at 02:50 PM
For God so loved the world he gave us orgasms.
Posted by: Office of the Chief Rabbi | May 22, 2011 at 03:24 PM
Murder, sex, cutting off penises, you aren't implying these people are normal are you? These poor sheeple can't take a shit without the Rebbe's approval. I feel very sad for them. They DO murder, intimidate, commit arson, all on a regular basis. Just like Murder Inc. did. They just hide behind a phony form of Judaism, pogroms, and the Holocaust.
Posted by: Dave | May 22, 2011 at 04:40 PM
Sex after death? Truly officer, I didn't know she was dead, I just assumed it was because she was British...
Posted by: WoolSilkCotton | May 22, 2011 at 06:56 PM
to the guy who dissed shmarya
haha nice one he really is a loser who dedicated his life to ruining others lives maybe some of his stories are true but for sure not all of them and instead of doing something usefull with his time he runs this miserable website which i only read for my enterainment watching how someone could be so blinded with hate hahaha
Posted by: charlie runkel | May 23, 2011 at 12:15 AM
I find it interesting that the people who defend the quality or enjoyment of sex in orthodox marriages are always men. What's good for you may not be so thrilling for her.
I sure would like to hear from their wives and it would be especially interesting to hear from orthodox women who had actually had something to compare it with.
Posted by: Legends in their own minds | May 23, 2011 at 01:56 AM
Really ?
Je ne pense pas.
Old graffiti from 1950's swinging Paris.(English translation)
"Existentialists have it easy !"
Posted by: Adam Neira | May 23, 2011 at 07:07 AM
I have no idea about the original research, but the article from "bioscholar" is very poorly written, and contains a major fallacy as well: what is the sampling criteria? Like what sort of "Catholics" were sampled for the questionnaire? No discussion... therefore this article is fluff, and useless except, of course, for blogs.
Posted by: Yoel Mechanic | May 23, 2011 at 10:18 AM
I recall reading that the Rebbes have the best sex lives. Is there any documentation there ?
Posted by: .Jacob Frank | May 23, 2011 at 11:43 AM
CALLING BS TO THE TENTHS DEGREE! i must say ain't no freak like a religiously repressed freak! i know a lot of girls who bring out the whips and chains in sex. i mean they get scary freaky, i know because i was one of them! i'm christian, but back in the day i was extremely repressed until i had sex with a boy and boy did i let it go! i was up for anything and everything he wanted to do to me or me to him. he wanted to fuck my tits, game on, he wanted to come on my face, game on, anything he saw in porn, as long as it wasn't a three way (hey i have my limits!) it was on! and i must say its still that way! i also know lots of other girls and guys who are that way too. i think majority of churches are starting to have seminars about how to be a good lover to your spouse. i know one preacher got in trouble because he let it spill how freaky (like sex toy freaky and whips freaky) him and his wife are and said majority of couples should do this instead of cheating on each other! he talked about how they use sex toys and role play all the time, if not every time, and this man is fundamental southern baptist! so just to let you guys know, there are freaks in every belief system!
Posted by: allie | May 23, 2011 at 05:35 PM
>you idiot heshy...
Give heshy a break. he is just trying to interject some common sense.
>nothing but a glorified one night stand!!!
Insightful.....BUT.....
this sounds like a stereotype from the movie "Kadosh". skepticism here is good. Maybe if you offer some evidence. Don't just serve this stuff up as self-evident.
Posted by: Yoel Mechanic | May 23, 2011 at 07:40 PM
Give heshy a break. he is just trying to interject some common sense.
Heshy is a lunatic by whom even other crazed fundies are embarrassed. Go take a look at his blog.
Posted by: Jeff | May 24, 2011 at 01:53 AM
"I don't see why any of us would have guilt about sex if you were married! Sex is ordained of God and a great thing, there's nothing guilt inducing about it." I agree with Sarah. Besides, what does one need to indulge in (I can't believe that I'm listing all this): oral, anal, bigamous, trigamous, quadigamous, we-could-go-on-gamous; ABDL, BDSM, and all other kinds of weird, even procreation-only, sex?
Posted by: Nickidewbear | May 26, 2011 at 02:07 AM
why is that i wonder hmmm
Posted by: micheal | August 28, 2011 at 03:01 PM