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Эротические скульптуры из храмового комплекса Кхаджурахо , Индия

Взгляды различных религий и верующих на человеческую сексуальность широко варьируются между ними и внутри них: от придания сексу и сексуальности довольно негативного значения до веры в то, что секс является высшим выражением божественного. Некоторые религии при оценке относительной морали различают сексуальные действия человека , которые практикуются для биологического воспроизводства (иногда разрешенные только при формальном семейном положении и в определенном возрасте ), и те, которые практикуются только для сексуального удовольствия.

Обзор

Сексуальная мораль сильно различалась с течением времени и в разных культурах. общества Сексуальные нормы – стандарты сексуального поведения – могут быть связаны с религиозными убеждениями, социальными условиями и условиями окружающей среды, или со всем этим. Сексуальность и воспроизводство являются фундаментальными элементами человеческого взаимодействия и общества во всем мире. Более того, «сексуальное ограничение» является одной из универсалий культуры, свойственной всем человеческим обществам.

Accordingly, most religions have seen a need to address the question of a "proper" role for sexuality. Religions have differing codes of sexual morality, which regulate sexual activity or assign normative values to certain sexually charged actions or ideas. Each major religion has developed a moral code covering issues of human sexuality, morality, ethics, etc. These moral codes seek to regulate the situations that can give rise to sexual interest and to influence people's sexual activities and practices.

Abrahamic religions

Abrahamic religions (namely Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, the Baháʼí Faith, and Islam) have traditionally affirmed and endorsed a patriarchal and heteronormative approach towards human sexuality.

Catholicism in particular favours exclusively penetrative vaginal intercourse between men and women within the boundaries of marriage over all other forms of human sexual activity, including autoeroticism, masturbation, anal sex, oral sex, non-penetrative and non-heterosexual sexual intercourse (all of which have been labeled as "sodomy" at various times), believing and teaching that such behaviors are forbidden because they're considered sinful, and further compared to or derived from the alleged behavior of the residents of Sodom and Gomorrah. However, the status of LGBT people in early Christianity and early Islam is debated.

Baháʼí Faith

In the Baháʼí Faith, sexual relationships are permitted only between a husband and wife. Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, forbids extramarital sexual intercourse in his book of laws; the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. He developed the belief that all humans are spiritual individuals that help develop and further the advancement of society physically and spiritually. The Baháʼí consideration of sex is that chastity should be practiced by both sexes before marriage because it is commendable ethically and leads to a happy and successful marital life. The Baháʼí Faith recognizes the value of the sex impulse, but judges that its proper expression is within the institution of marriage: Baháʼís do not believe in suppression of the sex impulse but in its regulation and control.

Christianity

Main category: Sexuality in Christianity

See also: Fornication, Christianity and sexual orientation, Homosexuality and Christianity, and Phallic saints

The Old Testament and Christianity have historically affirmed and endorsed a patriarchal and heteronormative approach towards human sexuality, favouring exclusively penetrative vaginal intercourse between men and women within the boundaries of marriage over all other forms of human sexual activity, including autoeroticism, masturbation, anal sex, oral sex, non-penetrative and non-heterosexual sexual intercourse (all of which have been labeled as "sodomy" at various times), believing and teaching that such behaviors are forbidden because they're considered sinful, and further compared to or derived from the behavior of the alleged residents of Sodom and Gomorrah.

In the New Testament, Jesus discussed little about sex, and most of the information about sex comes from the Old Testament and Paul's writings, and some are controversial today.

Sexuality carried out between different sexes, between 2 people (Monogamy, although polygamy is not forbidden) and in particular procreation, is generally understood as the ideal state.

There is conjugal love through Song of Songs in which it is about eroticism and romance.

New Testament

Paul the Apostle stated in 1 Corinthians "To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to remain unmarried as I am. But if they are not practising self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion." Importantly, Paul's view of sex is also that it is actually unnecessary for those with certain gifts (presumably "celibacy"). Jennifer Wright Knust says Paul framed desire a force Christians gained control over whereas non-Christians were "enslaved" by it. Further, Paul says the bodies of Christians were members of Christ's body and thus sexual desire must be eschewed.

New Testament scholar N. T. Wright asserts that Paul absolutely forbade fornication, irrespective of a new Christian's former cultural practices. Wright notes "If a Corinthian were to say, 'Because I'm a Corinthian, I have always had a string of girl-friends I sleep with, that's part of our culture,' Paul would respond, 'Not now you're a Christian you don't.'... When someone disagreed with Paul's clear rules on immorality or angry disputes, the matters he deals with in Colossians 3.5–10, he is... firm, as we see dramatically in 1 Corinthians 5 and 6. There is no place in the Christian fellowship for such practices and for such a person."

Some have suggested that Paul's treatment of sex was influenced by his conviction that the end of the world was imminent. Under this view, Paul, believing that the world would soon end, took it as a corollary that all earthly concerns, including sex, should hold little interest for Christians. Paul's letters show far greater concern with sexual issues than the gospel writers attributed to Jesus, since Paul was building Christian communities over decades and responding to various issues that arose.

The theologian Lee Gatiss states that "the word 'fornication' has gone out of fashion and is not in common use to describe non-marital sex. However, it is an excellent translation for [the Biblical term] porneíā, which basically referred to any kind of sex outside of marriage... This has been contested... but the overwhelming weight of scholarship and all the available evidence from the ancient world points firmly in this direction. 'Flee sexual immorality (porneíā) and pursue self-control' (cf. 1 Thess 4:1–8) was the straightforward message to Christians in a sex-crazed world."

Early Christianity

In early Christianity, reflection on scriptural texts introduced an eschatological hermeneutic to the reading of the Book of Genesis. The Garden of Eden was seen as a normative ideal state to which Christians were to strive; writers linked the future enjoyment of Heaven to the original blessedness of Adam and Eve in their reflections.

The valuation of virginity in the ancient church brought into relief a tension between the Genesis injunction to "be fruitful and multiply" with its understood contextual implication of marriage as a social institution, and the interpretation of the superiority of virginity over marriage, sexual activity and family formation from the Gospel texts Matt 19:11-12, Matt 19:29. One way patristic thinkers tried to harmonize the texts was through the position that there had actually been no sexual intercourse in Eden: on this reading, sex happened after the fall of man and the expulsion from Eden, thus preserving virginity as the perfect state both in the historical Paradise and the anticipated Heaven. John Chrysostom, Gregory of Nyssa, Justin Martyr, Epiphanius of Salamis, and Irenaeus of Lyons all espoused this view:

• Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity, 12 "He did not yet judge of what was lovely by taste or sight; he found in the Lord alone all that was sweet; and he used the helpmeet given him only for this delight, as Scripture signifies when it said that 'he knew her not' till he was driven forth from the garden, and till she, for the sin which she was decoyed into committing, was sentenced to the pangs of childbirth. We, then, who in our first ancestor were thus ejected, are allowed to return to our earliest state of blessedness by the very same stages by which we lost Paradise. What are they? Pleasure, craftily offered, began the Fall, and there followed after pleasure shame, and fear, even to remain longer in the sight of their Creator, so that they hid themselves in leaves and shade; and after that they covered themselves with the skins of dead animals; and then were sent forth into this pestilential and exacting land where, as the compensation for having to die, marriage was instituted".
• John Chrysostom, On Virginity, 14.3 "When the whole world had been completed and all had been readied for our repose and use, God fashioned man for whom he made the world... Man did need a helper, and she came into being; not even then did marriage seem necessary... Desire for sexual intercourse, conception, labor, childbirth, and every form of corruption had been banished from their souls. As a clear river shooting forth from a pure source, so they were in that place adorned by virginity." 15.2 "Why did marriage not appear before the treachery? Why was there no intercourse in paradise? Why not the pains of childbirth before the curse? Because at that time these things were superfluous."
• Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book 3, ch 22:4 "But Eve was disobedient; for she did not obey when as yet she was a virgin. And even as she, having indeed a husband, Adam, but being nevertheless as yet a virgin (for in Paradise they were both naked, and were not ashamed, inasmuch as they, having been created a short time previously, had no understanding of the procreation of children: for it was necessary that they should first come to adult age, and then multiply from that time onward), having become disobedient, was made the cause of death, both to herself and to the entire human race..."
• Epiphanius of Salamis, Panarion, 78.17–19 "And as in paradise Eve, still a virgin, fell into the sin of disobedience, once more through the Virgin [Mary] came the obedience of grace."
• Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, ch 100 "For Eve, who was a virgin and undefiled, having conceived the word of the serpent, brought forth disobedience and death. But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy, when the angel Gabriel announced the good tidings to her..."

Prof. John Noonan suggests that "if one asks... where the Christian Fathers derived their notions on marital intercourse – notions which have no express biblical basis – the answer must be, chiefly from the Stoics". He uses texts from Musonius Rufus, Seneca the Younger, and Ocellus Lucanus, tracing works of Clement of Alexandria, Origen and Jerome to the works of these earlier thinkers, particularly as pertaining to the permissible use of the sexual act, which in the Stoic model must be subdued, dispassionate, and justified by its procreative intent.

Augustine of Hippo had a different challenge: to respond to the errors of Manichaeism. The Manichees, according to Augustine, were "opposed to marriage, because they are opposed to procreation which is the purpose of marriage". "The method of contraception practised by these Manichees whom Augustine knew is the use of the sterile period as determined by Greek medicine", which Augustine condemns (this stands in contrast to the contemporarily permitted Catholic use of Natural family planning). Elaine Pagels says, "By the beginning of the fifth century, Augustine had actually declared that spontaneous sexual desire is the proof of—and penalty for—universal original sin", though that this view goes against "most of his Christian predecessors".

As monastic communities developed, the sexual lives of monks came under scrutiny from two theologians, John Cassian and Caesarius of Arles, who commented on the "vices" of the solitary life. "Their concerns were not with the act of masturbation, but with the monks who vowed chastity. The monks' vow made masturbation an illicit act; the act itself was not considered sinful... In fact... prior to Cassian, masturbation was not considered a sexual offence for anyone."

Catholicism

Main article: Catholic theology of sexuality

See also: Theology of the Body and Religious views on masturbation

From the beginning of the thirteenth century, the Catholic Church formally recognized marriage between a freely consenting, baptized man and woman as a sacrament – an outward sign communicating a special gift of God's love. The Council of Florence in 1438 gave this definition, following earlier church statements in 1208, and declared that sexual union was a special participation in the union of Christ in the church. However the Puritans, while highly valuing the institution, viewed marriage as a "civil", rather than a "religious" matter, being "under the jurisdiction of the civil courts". This is because they found no biblical precedent for clergy performing marriage ceremonies. Further, marriage was said to be for the "relief of concupiscence" as well as any spiritual purpose.

The Catholic moral theologian Charles E. Curran stated "the fathers of the Church are practically silent on the simple question of masturbation".

The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that "the flesh is the hinge of salvation". The Catechism indicates that sexual relationships in marriage is "a way of imitating in the flesh the Creator's generosity and fecundity" and lists fornication as one of the "offenses against chastity", calling it "an intrinsically and gravely disordered action" because "use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose". The "conjugal act" aims "at a deeply personal unity, a unity that, beyond union in one flesh, leads to forming one heart and soul" since the marriage bond is to be a sign of the love between God and humanity.

Pope John Paul II's first major teaching was on the theology of the body, presented in a series of lectures by the same name. Over the course of five years he elucidated a vision of sex that was not only positive and affirming but was about redemption, not condemnation. He taught that by understanding God's plan for physical love we could understand "the meaning of the whole of existence, the meaning of life." He taught that human beings were created by a loving God for a purpose: to be loving persons who freely choose to love, to give themselves as persons who express their self-giving through their bodies. Thus, sexual intercourse between husband and wife is a symbol of their total mutual self-donation.

For John Paul II, "The body, and it alone, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and divine." He says there is no other more perfect image of the unity and communion of God in mutual love than the sexual act of a married couple, whereby they give themselves in a total way – exclusively to one another, and up to the end of their lives, and in a fruitfully generous way by participating in the creation of new human beings. Through this perspective, he understands the immorality of extra-marital sex. It falsifies the language of the human body, a language of total love worthy of persons by using the body for selfish ends, thus treating persons as things and objects, rather than dealing with embodied persons with the reverence and love that incarnate spirits deserve. John Paul II stresses that there is great beauty in sexual love when done in harmony with the human values of freely chosen total commitment and self-giving. For him, this sexual love is a form of worship, an experience of the sacred.

Roman Catholics believe that masturbation is a sin.

In September 2015, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, responsible for enforcing Catholic doctrine, did not permit a transgender man in Spain to serve as a godfather effectively barring transgender Catholics from serving as a baptismal sponsors. The statement concluded: "[...] the result is evident that this person does not possess the requisite of leading a life conformed to the faith and to the position of godfather (CIC, can 874 §1,3), therefore is not able to be admitted to the position of godmother nor godfather. One should not see this as discrimination, but only the recognition of an objective absence of the requisites that by their nature are necessary to assume the ecclesial responsibility of being a godparent."

Protestantism

Main article: Fornication § Mainstream Protestantism

Laws against adultery in the United States in 1996 and when these laws were enacted

Views over sexuality in Protestant churches differ.

Conservative evangelical Protestant churches

Some Protestants assert that any and all sex outside of marriage, including that conducted between committed, engaged or cohabiting couples, is the sin of fornication.

Unlike Roman Catholics, Protestants do not disapprove of masturbation due to the lack of a Biblical injunction against the act. Mainstream and conservative Protestants agree masturbation is not a sin, although there are various restrictions, such as making sure it does not lead to use of pornography or looking lustfully at people or mutual masturbation or addiction to the act. It must also not be undertaken in a spirit of defiance against God.

Lutheran, Reformed, and United churches

All 20 Lutheran, Reformed, and United churches of the Evangelical Church in Germany welcome LGBT members, as well as the Protestant Church in the Netherlands. In these Lutheran, United, and Reformed churches gay ministers are permitted in ministry and gay married couples are allowed in their churches.

More recently, the United Methodist Church has seen somewhat of a divide over the subject of human sexuality. The 2019 General Conference Special Session met, hoping to resolve the ongoing division regarding the homosexual community. This topic was first debated at a General Conference in 1972, resulting in a statement that the church "does not condone the practice of homosexuality and considers this practice incompatible with Christian teaching." While the church still believes that church-goers should not "reject or condemn" those in the LGBTQ community, their statement still remains and additionally restricts their pastors from being "self-avowed, practicing homosexuals." With uncertainty about what the Church will look like in the future, calls for individual churches to separate from the United Methodist denomination have increased. The COVID-19 pandemic moved the original 2020 General Conference to 2024, when those present plan to address the possibility of altering the existing policies.

Inside the Lutheran Church of Sweden, the Bishop of Stockholm, Eva Brunne is a lesbian in a registered partnership with Gunilla Lindén, who is also an ordained priest of the Church of Sweden.

Anglicanism

The Anglican Church upholds human sexuality as a gift from a loving God, designed to be between a man and a woman in a monogamous, lifetime union of marriage. It also recognises singleness and dedicated celibacy as Christ-like. It reassures people with same-sex attraction they are loved by God, and are welcomed as full members of the Body of Christ. The church leadership has a variety of views in regard to homosexual expression and ordination. Some expressions of sexuality are considered sinful, including "promiscuity, prostitution, incest, pornography, paedophilia, predatory sexual behaviour, and sadomasochism (all of which may be heterosexual and homosexual), adultery, violence against wives, and female circumcision." The church is concerned with pressures on young people to engage sexually and encourages abstinence.

In the Anglican Church, there is a large discussion over the blessing of gay couples, and over tolerance of homosexuality. The discussion is more about the aspect of love between two people of the same-sex in a relationship than it is about the sexual aspect of a relationship.

Metropolitan Community Church

The Metropolitan Community Church, also known as the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, has a specific outreach to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families and communities.

Latter Day Saints movement

Main article: Sexuality and Mormonism

See also: Masturbation and the LDS Church, Homosexuality and the LDS Church, Mormonism and polygamy, and Birth control and the LDS Church

Within the many branches of the Latter Day Saints movement, the principal denomination, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), teaches conservative views around sexual ethics in their Law of Chastity, which holds that masturbation, pre- and extra-marital sex, and same-sex sexual activity are sins. In the mid-1800s, however, it was allowed for men to be married to and have children with several women, and this was also discontinued in the late 1800s. On various occasions, LDS Church leaders have taught that members should not masturbate as part of obedience to the LDS law of chastity. The LDS Church believes that sex outside of opposite-sex marriage is sinful, and that any same-sex sexual activity is a serious sin. God is believed to be in a heterosexual marriage with the Heavenly Mother, and Mormons believe that opposite-sex marriage is what God wants for all his children. Top LDS Church leaders formerly taught that attractions to those of the same sex were a sin or disease that could be changed or fixed, but now have no stance on the etiology of homosexuality, and teach that therapy focused on changing sexual orientation is unethical. Lesbian, gay, and bisexual members are, thus, left with the option of attempting to change their sexual orientation, entering a mixed-orientation opposite-sex marriage, or living a celibate lifestyle without any sexual expression (including masturbation).

The LDS Church teaches that women's principal role is to raise children. Women who rejected this role as being a domestic woman in the home, were seen as unstable and corrupted. Before 1890, the Mormon leaders taught that polygamy was a way to salvation, and many had multiple wives into the early 1900s, and some women practiced polyandry.

The Mormon religion teaches that marriage should be with a man and a woman. The LDS Church teaches its members to obey the law of chastity, which says that "sexual relations are proper only between a man and a woman who are legally and lawfully wedded as husband and wife." Violations of this code include: "adultery, being without natural affection, lustfulness, infidelity, incontinence, filthy communications, impurity, inordinate affection, fornication." The traditional Mormon religion forbids all homosexual behavior, whether it be intra-marriage or extramarital. In Romans 1:24-32, Paul preached to the Romans that homosexual behavior was sinful. In Leviticus 20:13, Moses included in his law that homosexual actions and behaviors were against God's will. In the 1830s, LDS founder, Joseph Smith, instituted the private practice on polygamy. The practice was defended by the church as a matter of religious freedom. In 1890, the church practice was terminated. Since the termination of polygamy, Mormons have solely believed in marriage between two people, and those two people being a man and a woman. The LDS community states that they still love homosexuals as sons and daughters of the Lord, but if they act upon their inclinations, then they are subject to discipline of the church.

Unitarian Universalism

Several Unitarian Universalist congregations have undertaken a series of organizational, procedural, and practical steps to become acknowledged as a "Welcoming Congregation": a congregation which has taken specific steps to welcome and integrate gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) members. UU ministers perform same-sex unions and now same-sex marriages where legal (and sometimes when not, as a form of civil protest). On June 29, 1984, the Unitarian Universalists became the first major church "to approve religious blessings on homosexual unions."

Unitarian Universalists have been in the forefront of the work to make same-sex marriages legal in their local states and provinces, as well as on the national level. Gay men, bisexuals, and lesbians are also regularly ordained as ministers, and a number of gay, bisexual, and lesbian ministers have, themselves, now become legally married to their partners. In May 2004, Arlington Street Church was the site of the first state-sanctioned same-sex marriage in the United States. The official stance of the UUA is for the legalization of same-sex marriage—"Standing on the Side of Love." In 2004 UU Minister Rev. Debra Haffner of The Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing published An Open Letter on Religious Leaders on Marriage Equality to affirm same-sex marriage from a multi-faith perspective. In December 2009, Washington, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty signed the bill to legalize same-sex marriage for the District of Columbia in All Souls Church, Unitarian (Washington, D.C.).

Unitarian Universalists for Polyamory Awareness is a group within Unitarian Universalism whose vision is "for Unitarian Universalism to become the first poly-welcoming mainstream religious denomination."

Islam

Main articles: Interfaith marriage in Islam, LGBT people in Islam, and Mukhannathun

Further information: Islamic sexual jurisprudence and Liberalism and progressivism within Islam

Same-sex sexual activity illegal

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Interfaith marriages are recognized between Muslims and Non-Muslim "People of the Book" (usually enumerated as Jews, Christians, and Sabians). According to the traditional interpretation of Islamic law (sharīʿa), a Muslim man is allowed to marry a Christian or Jewish woman but this ruling does not apply to women who belong to other Non-Muslim religious groups, whereas a Muslim woman is not allowed to marry a Non-Muslim man of any Non-Muslim religious group. In general, the Quran tells Muslim men not to marry Non-Muslim women, and it tells Muslim women not marry non-Muslim men, but it makes an allowance for Muslim men to marry women of the People of the Book (usually Jews, Christians, and Sabians). No such allowances are made for women. Some Muslim scholars discourage all interfaith marriages, citing cultural differences between Muslims and Non-Muslims.

In some societies outside the traditional dar al-islam, interfaith marriages between Muslims and Non-Muslims are not uncommon, including marriages that contradict the historic Sunni understanding of ijmāʿ (the consensus of fuqāha) as to the bounds of legitimacy. The tradition of reformist and progressive Islam, however, permits marriage between Muslim women and Non-Muslim men; Islamic scholars opining this view include Khaleel Mohammed, Hassan Al-Turabi, among others. Despite Sunni Islam prohibiting Muslim women from marrying Non-Muslim men in interfaith marriages, interfaith marriages between Muslim women and Non-Muslim men take place at substantial rates, contravening the traditional Sunni understanding of ijmāʿ. The modern tradition of reformist and progressive Islam has also come to permit marriage between Muslim women and Non-Muslim men, with Islamic scholars opining this view including Khaleel Mohammed and Hassan Al-Turabi, among others. In the United States, about 10% of Muslim women are today married to Non-Muslim men.

Istanbul LGBT Pride parade in 2013, Taksim Square, Istanbul, Turkey

Attitudes toward LGBTQ+ people and their experiences in the Muslim world have been influenced by its religious, legal, social, political, and cultural history. The religious stigma and sexual taboo associated with homosexuality in Islamic societies can have profound effects for those Muslims who self-identify as LGBTQ+. Today, most LGBTQ-affirming Islamic organizations and individual congregations are primarily based in the Western world and South Asian countries; they usually identify themselves with the liberal and progressive movements within Islam.

Homosexual acts are forbidden in traditional Islamic jurisprudence and are liable to different punishments, including flogging, stoning, and the death penalty, depending on the situation and legal school. However, homosexual relationships were generally tolerated in pre-modern Islamic societies, and historical records suggest that these laws were invoked infrequently, mainly in cases of rape or other "exceptionally blatant infringement on public morals". Public attitudes toward homosexuality in the Muslim world underwent a marked negative change starting from the 19th century through the global spread of Islamic fundamentalist movements such as Salafism and Wahhabism, and the influence of the sexual notions and restrictive norms prevalent in Europe at the time: a number of Muslim-majority countries have retained criminal penalties for homosexual acts enacted under European colonial rule. In recent times, extreme prejudice, discrimination, and violence against LGBT people persists, both socially and legally, in much of the Muslim world, exacerbated by increasingly socially conservative attitudes and the rise of Islamist movements in Muslim-majority countries.

Judaism

Main article: Judaism and sexuality

See also: Homosexuality and Judaism, Judaism and masturbation, Tzniut, Niddah, Yichud, Negiah, and Adultery § Judaism

Orthodox Jewish protesters holding Anti-LGBT Protest signs during the Gay Pride parade in Haifa, Israel (2010)

In the perspective of traditional Judaism, sex and reproduction are the holiest of acts one can do, the act through which one can imitate God, and in order to preserve its sanctity there are many boundaries and guidelines. Within the boundaries, there are virtually no outright strictures, and it is in fact obligatory. It prohibits sexual relations outside of heterosexual marriage, maintains biblical strictures on relations within marriage including observance of niddah, a prohibition on relations for a period including the menstrual period, and tzniut, requirements of modest dress and behavior. Traditional Judaism views the physical acts of adultery, incest, intentional waste of semen, the physical act of men having sex with men, and male masturbation as grave sins. Judaism permits relatively free divorce, with Orthodox Judaism and Conservative Judaism requiring a religious divorce ceremony for a divorce to be religiously recognized. Worldwide movements in Judaism considered more liberal have rejected Jewish law as binding but rather inspirational and allegorical, so adapted perspectives more consistent with general contemporary Western culture.

Most of mainstream Judaism does not accept polyamory, although some people consider themselves Jewish and polyamorous. One prominent rabbi who does accept polyamory is Sharon Kleinbaum who was ordained in Reconstructionist Judaism which considers biblical Jewish law as not considered binding, but is treated as a valuable cultural remnant that should be upheld unless there is reason for the contrary. She is the senior rabbi at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in New York which works independently of any major American Jewish denomination; R Kleinbaum says that polyamory is a choice that does not preclude a Jewishly observant, socially conscious life. Some polyamorous Jews also point to biblical patriarchs having multiple wives and concubines as evidence that polyamorous relationships can be sacred in Judaism. There is an email list dedicated to polyamorous Jews, called AhavaRaba, which roughly translates to "big love" in Hebrew. (Its name echoes the Ahava rabbah prayer expressing thanks for God's "abundant love".)

Orthodox

Main article: Tzniut

There are several levels to the observance of physical and personal modesty (tzniut), according to Orthodox Judaism, as derived from various sources in halakha. Observance of these rules varies from aspirational to mandatory to routine across the spectrum of Orthodox stricture and observance.

Orthodox Judaism also maintains a strong prohibition on interfaith sexual relations and marriage. Orthodox Judaism, alone of all the Jewish denominations, retains relatively mild traditional disabilities on divorce, including a Biblical prohibition on a Kohen (priestly descendant of Aaron) marrying a divorcee or a woman who has engaged in certain types of sexual misconduct. An Orthodox bill of divorce is required for a divorce to be recognized.

Conservative

Conservative Judaism, consistent with its general view that halakha (Jewish law) is a binding guide to Jewish life but subject to periodic revision by the Rabbinate, has lifted a number of strictures observed by Orthodox Judaism. In particular, in December 2006, Conservative Judaism's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards adopted responsa presenting diametrically opposed views on the issue of homosexuality. It adopted an opinion restricting a prior prohibition on homosexual conduct to male-male anal sex only, which it declared to be the only Biblical prohibition, declaring all other prohibitions (e.g. male-male oral sex or lesbian sex) rabbinic, and lifting all rabbinic restrictions based on its interpretation of the Talmudic principle of Kevod HaBriyot ("human dignity"). While declining to develop a form of religious gay marriage, it permitted blessing lesbian and gay unions and ordaining openly lesbian and gay rabbis who agree not to engage in male-male anal sex. It is also a traditionalist opinion, upholding all traditional prohibitions on homosexual activity, also adopted as a majority opinion, The approach permits individual rabbis, congregations, and rabbinical schools to set their own policy on homosexual conduct. It reflects a profound change from a prior blanket prohibition on male homosexual practices. It acknowledges a sharp divergence of views on sexual matters within Conservative Judaism, such that there is no single Conservative Jewish approach to matters of sexuality. Conservative Judaism currently straddles the divide between liberal and traditional opinion on sexual matters within contemporary American society, permitting both views.

Conservative Judaism has maintained on its books a variety of requirements and prohibitions, including a requirement that married women observe the family purity laws and a general prohibition on non-marital heterosexual conduct. The family purity laws require women to be recognized as tumah or niddah during their menstrual period. As a tumah, a woman is to wait 7 days for her menstrual cycle to end and then 7 "clean days" in order to enter the mikveh and begin sexual relations. During this time, it is forbidden to have any type of contact with the niddah, thus anything she touches is not to be touched and no physical contact is permitted. On the same day as the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards released its homosexuality responsa, it released multiple opinions on the subject of niddah including a responsum lifting certain traditional restrictions on husband-wife contact during the niddah period while maintaining a prohibition on sexual relations. The permissive responsum on homosexuality used the Conservative movement's approach to niddah as an analogy for construing the Biblical prohibition against male homosexual conduct narrowly and lifting restrictions it deemed Rabbinic in nature. The responsum indicated it would be making a practical analogy between an approach in which male homosexual couples would be on their honor to refrain from certain acts and its approach to niddah:

We expect homosexual students to observe the rulings of this responsum in the same way that we expect heterosexual students to observe the CJLS rulings on niddah. We also expect that interview committees, administrators, faculty and fellow students will respect the privacy and dignity of gay and lesbian students in the same way that they respect the privacy and dignity of heterosexual students.

The responsum enjoined young people not to be "promiscuous" and to prepare themselves for "traditional marriage" if possible, while not explicitly lifting or re-enforcing any express strictures on non-marital heterosexual conduct.

Even before this responsum, strictures on pre-marital sex had been substantially ignored, even in official circles. For example, when the Jewish Theological Seminary of America proposed enforcing a policy against non-marital cohabitation by rabbinical students in the 1990s, protests by cohabiting rabbinical students resulted in a complete rescission of the policy.

Conservative Judaism formally prohibits interfaith marriage and its standards currently indicate it will expel a rabbi who performs an interfaith marriage. It maintains a variety of formal strictures including a prohibition on making birth announcements in synagogue bulletins for children on non-Jewish mothers and accepting non-Jews as synagogue members. However, interfaith marriage is relatively widespread among the Conservative laity, and the Conservative movement has recently adapted a policy of being more welcoming of interfaith couples in the hopes of interesting their children in Judaism.

Conservative Judaism, which was for much of the 20th century the largest Jewish denomination in the United States declined sharply in synagogue membership in the United States the 1990s, from 51% of synagogue memberships in 1990 to 33.1% in 2001, with most of the loss going to Orthodox Judaism and most of the rest to Reform. The fracturing in American society of opinion between increasingly liberal and increasingly traditionalist viewpoints on sexual and other issues, as well as the gap between official opinion and general lay practice vis-a-vis the more traditionalist and liberal denominations, may have contributed to the decline.

Reform, Liberal, Reconstructionist, and Humanistic

Further information: LGBT-affirming denominations in Judaism, LGBT clergy in Judaism, and Same-sex marriage and Judaism

A halakhic egalitarian Pride minyan in Tel Aviv on the second Shabbat of Hanukkah

Reform Judaism, Humanistic Judaism, and Reconstructionist Judaism do not observe or require traditional sexuality rules and have welcomed non-married and homosexual couples and endorsed homosexual commitment ceremonies and marriages.

Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism are more tolerant of interfaith partnerships and often explicitly welcome interfaith families at their synagogues and services. Reform and Liberal branches of Judaism do not currently perform religious (and therefore legally binding) marriage ceremonies for interfaith couples; however as of October 2020, Liberal Rabbis may bless an interfaith marriage under a chuppah at their discretion, provided the couple intend to keep a Jewish household. Humanistic Judaism permits interfaith marriage. Reform, Reconstructionist, and Humanistic Judaism also do not require a religious divorce ceremony separate from a civil divorce.

It has been speculated that the more tolerant attitudes of Reform, Reconstructionist, and Humanistic Judaism towards both sexual diversity and interfaith marriage may have contributed to the rise in their popularity during the 1990s, from about 33% of affiliated households to 38%, passing Conservative Judaism as the largest Jewish denomination in the United States.

Dharmic religions

Buddhism

Main article: Buddhism and sexuality

See also: Buddhism and sexual orientation

The most common formulation of Buddhist ethics are the five precepts and the Noble Eightfold Path, which say that one should neither be attached to nor crave sensual pleasure. These precepts take the form of voluntary, personal undertakings, not divine mandate or instruction.

Of the five precepts, the third vow is to refrain from sex with another's spouse, someone under age (namely, those protected by their parents or guardians), and those who have taken vows of religious celibacy. In Chinese Buddhism, the third vow is interpreted as refraining from sex outside marriage.

Buddhist monks and nuns of most traditions are expected to refrain from all sexual activity and the Buddha is said to have admonished his followers to avoid unchastity "as if it were a pit of burning cinders." While laypersons may have sex within marriage, monastics are not to have any sexual conduct at all.

Hinduism

See also: History of sex in India, Hinduism and LGBT topics, and Kama

Khajuraho Hindu temple complex is famous for erotic arts.

Erotic sculptures at the main Hindu temples of Khajuraho Group of Monuments

Religiously, Hindus begin life at the Brahmacharya or "student" stage, in which they are directed to chastely advance themselves educationally and spiritually to prepare themselves for a life of furthering their dharma (societal, occupational, parental, etc. duties) and karma (right earthly actions); only once they reach the Grihastya or "householder" stage can they seek kama (physical pleasure) and artha (worldly achievement, material prosperity) through marriage and their vocations, respectively.

According to the Dharmasastras or the religious legal texts of Hinduism, marriage in Hinduism is an institution for reproduction and thus is naturally limited to heterosexual couples. Furthermore, sex outside of marriage is prohibited. The Manusmriti list eight types of marriage of which four are consensual and encouraged and four are non-consensual and discouraged. However, popular practices did not necessarily reflect religious teachings.

The Kama Sutra (Discourse on Kāma) by Vatsayana, widely believed to be just a manual for sexual practices, offers an insight into the sexual mores, ethics and societal rules that were prevalent in ancient India. The erotic sculptures of Khajuraho also offer insight. Abhigyana Shakuntalam, a drama in Sanskrit by Kālidāsa, cited as one of the best examples of shringara rasa (romance, one of the nine rasas or emotions), talks of the love story of Dushyanta and Shakuntala.

Sikhism

A disciplined Sikh is expected to be in control of sexual desire at all times. Kaam, or excessive lust, is one of the five thieves, or vices, that interfere with one's spiritual journey. Normal and healthy amounts of sexuality and lust are not condemned nor considered kaam.

East Asian religions

Taoism

In Chinese mythology, Jiutian Xuannü is the goddess of war, sex, and longevity. She is closely related to Sunü (素女), who is her divine sister. Both their names combined, as xuansu zhidao (玄素之道), signify the Daoist arts of the bedchamber. Most books bearing Jiutian Xuannü's name were about warfare, but there were a few books that were specifically about sex. The Xuannü Jing (玄女經, "Mysterious Woman Classic") and the Sunü Jing (素女經, "Natural Woman Classic"), both dating to the Han dynasty, were handbooks in dialogue form about sex. Texts from the Xuannü Jing have been partly incorporated into the Sui dynasty edition of the Sunü Jing. From the Han dynasty onwards, these handbooks would be familiar to the upper class. On the other side, during the Han dynasty, Wang Chong had criticized the sexual arts as "not only harming the body but infringing upon the nature of man and woman." During the Tang dynasty and earlier periods, Jiutian Xuannü was often associated with the sexual arts. The Xuannü Jing remained a familiar work among the literati during the Tang and Sui dynasties.

The Dongxuanzi Fangzhong Shu (洞玄子房中術, "Bedchamber Arts of the Master of the Grotto Mysteries"), which was likely written by the 7th-century poet Liu Zongyuan, contains explicit descriptions of the sexual arts that was supposedly transmitted from Jiutian Xuannü. The sexual practices, that Jiutian Xuannü supposedly taught, were often compared to alchemy and physiological procedures for prolonging life. In Ge Hong's Baopu Zi, there's a passage in which Jiutian Xuannü tells Huangdi that sexual techniques are "like the intermingling of water and fire—it can kill or bring new life depending upon whether or not one uses the correct methods."

Tu'er Shen (Chinese: 兔儿神 or 兔神), The Leveret Spirit is a Chinese Shenist or Taoist deity who manages love and sex between men. His name is often colloquially translated as "Rabbit God". Wei-Ming Temple in the Yonghe District of New Taipei City in Taiwan is dedicated to Tu'er Shen. About 9000 pilgrims visit the temple each year to pray to find a suitable partner. The Wei-ming temple also performs love ceremony for gay couples.

Indigenous religions

African Diasporic religions

Main article: Haitian Vodou and sexual orientation

Within Candomblé, a syncretic religion primarily found in Brazil, there is widespread (though not universal) support for gay rights, many members are LGBT, and have performed gay marriages. Practitioners of Santería, primarily found in Cuba, generally (though not universally) welcome LGBT members and include them in religious or ritual activities. Also a Brazilian syncretic religion, Umbanda houses generally support LGBT rights and have performed gay marriages. Homosexuality is religiously acceptable in Haitian Vodou. The lwa or loa (spirits) Erzulie Dantor and Erzulie Freda are often associated with and viewed as protectors of queer people. The lao Ghede Nibo is sometimes depicted as an effeminate drag queen and inspires those he inhabits to lascivious sexuality of all kinds.

Ancient Mesopotamian religion

Main article: Ancient Mesopotamian religion

Individuals who went against the traditional gender binary were heavily involved in the cult of Inanna, an ancient Mesopotamian goddess. During Sumerian times, a set of priests known as gala worked in Inanna's temples, where they performed elegies and lamentations. Men who became gala sometimes adopted female names and their songs were composed in the Sumerian eme-sal dialect, which, in literary texts, is normally reserved for the speech of female characters. Some Sumerian proverbs seem to suggest that gala had a reputation for engaging in anal sex with men. During the Akkadian Period, kurgarrū and assinnu were servants of Ishtar who dressed in female clothing and performed war dances in Ishtar's temples. Several Akkadian proverbs seem to suggest that they may have also had homosexual proclivities. Gwendolyn Leick, an anthropologist known for her writings on Mesopotamia, has compared these individuals to the contemporary Indian hijra. In one Akkadian hymn, Ishtar is described as transforming men into women. Some modern pagans include Inanna in their worship.

Pre-colonial religions of the Americas

Main articles: Alaska Native religion, Mesoamerican religion, Native American religion, and Inuit religion

Further information: Same-sex marriage in tribal nations in the United States

Drawing by George Catlin (1796–1872) while on the Great Plains among the Sac and Fox Nation. Depicting a group of male warriors dancing around a male-bodied person in a woman's dress, non-Native artist George Catlin titled the painting Dance to the Berdache.

Among the Indigenous peoples of the Americas prior to the European colonization, many Nations had respected ceremonial, religious, and social roles for homosexual, bisexual, and gender-nonconforming individuals in their communities and in many contemporary Native American and First Nations communities, these roles still exist. Homosexual and gender-variant individuals were also common among other pre-conquest civilizations in Latin America, such as the Aztecs, Mayans, Quechuas, Moches, Zapotecs, and the Tupinambá of Brazil and were accepted in their various religions.

New religious movements

Since the beginning of the sexual liberation movement in the Western world, which coincided with second-wave feminism and the women's liberation movement initiated in the early 1960s, new religious movements and alternative spiritualities such as Modern Paganism and the New Age began to grow and spread across the globe alongside their intersection with the sexual liberation movement and the counterculture of the 1960s, and exhibited characteristic features, such as the embrace of alternative lifestyles, unconventional dress, rejection of Abrahamic religions and their conservative social mores, use of cannabis and other recreational drugs, relaxed attitude, sarcastic humble or self-imposed poverty, and laissez-faire sexual behavior. The sexual liberation movement was aided by feminist ideologues in their mutual struggle to challenge traditional ideas regarding female sexuality, male sexuality, and queer sexuality. Elimination of undue favorable bias towards men and objectification of women, as well as support for women's right to choose their sexual partners free of outside interference or societal judgment, were three of the main goals associated with sexual liberation from the feminist perspective.

Modern Paganism

Most Neopagan religions have the theme of fertility (both physical and creative/spiritual) as central to their practices, and as such encourage what they view as a healthy sex life, consensual sex between adults, regardless of gender.

Heathenry, a modern Germanic Pagan movement, includes several pro-LGBT groups. Some groups legitimize openness toward LGBT practitioners by reference to the gender-bending actions of Thor and Odin in Norse mythology. There are, for instance, homosexual and transgender members of The Troth, a prominent U.S. Heathen organisation. Many Heathen groups in Northern Europe perform same-sex marriages, and a group of self-described "Homo-Heathens" marched in the 2008 Stockholm Pride carrying a statue of the Norse god Freyr. Research found a greater proportion of LGBT practitioners within Heathenry (21%) than wider society, although noted that the percentage was lower than in other forms of modern Paganism.

Wicca, like other religions, has adherents with a broad spectrum of views, ranging from conservative to liberal. It is a largely nondogmatic religion and has no prohibitions against sexual intercourse outside of marriage or relationships between members of the same sex. The religion's ethics are largely summed up by the Wiccan Rede: "An it harm none, do as thou wilt", which is interpreted by many as allowing and endorsing responsible sexual relationships of all varieties. Specifically in the Wiccan tradition of modern witchcraft, one of the widely accepted pieces of Craft liturgy, the Charge of the Goddess instructs that "...all acts of love and pleasure are [the Goddess'] rituals", giving validity to all forms of sexual activity for Wiccan practitioners.

In the Gardnerian and Alexandrian forms of Wicca, the "Great Rite" is a sex ritual much like the hieros gamos, performed by a priest and priestess who are believed to embody the Wiccan God and Goddess. The Great Rite is almost always performed figuratively using the athame and chalice as symbols of the penis and vagina. The literal form of the ritual is always performed by consenting adults, by a couple who are already lovers and in private. The Great Rite is not seen as an opportunity for casual sex.

Raëlism

Main article: Raëlism

Further information: Raëlian beliefs and practices

Раэлианские участники на Корейском фестивале квир-культуры (2014 г.)

Raëlism, an international new religious movement and UFO religion which was founded in France in 1974, promotes a positive outlook towards human sexuality, including homosexuality. Its founder Raël recognised same-sex marriage, and a Raëlian press release stated that sexual orientation is genetic and it also likened discrimination against gay people to racism. Some Raëlian leaders have performed licensed same-sex marriages.

Святая смерть

Культ Санта-Муэрте – новое религиозное движение сосредоточено на поклонении Санта-Муэрте, культовому образу , женскому божеству и народному святому , который широко почитается в мексиканском неоязычестве и народном католицизме . Олицетворение смерти , она связана с исцелением, защитой и безопасной доставкой в ​​загробную жизнь своих преданных. Санта-Муэрте также почитается и считается святой и защитником сообществ лесбиянок, геев, бисексуалов, трансгендеров и гомосексуалистов (ЛГБТК+) в Мексике . считают ЛГБТК+ людей изгоями и относятся к ним как к изгоям . поскольку католическая церковь , евангелические церкви и мексиканское общество в целом Многие представители ЛГБТК+ просят у нее защиты от насилия, ненависти, болезней и помощи в поисках любви. К ее заступничеству обычно прибегают на церемониях однополых браков, проводимых в Мексике. Традиционная католическая церковь Мексики-США , также известная как церковь Санта-Муэрте, признает однополые браки и проводит религиозные свадебные церемонии для гомосексуальных пар. По словам Р. Эндрю Чеснута, доктора философии по истории Латинской Америки и профессора религиоведения , культ Санта - Муэрте является самым быстрорастущим новым религиозным движением в Америке.

Сатанизм

ЛаВейский сатанизм критикует авраамические сексуальные нравы , считая их узкими, ограничительными и лицемерными. Секс рассматривается как привилегия, но заниматься ею можно только с согласия. Одиннадцать Сатанинских Правил Земли дают только две инструкции относительно секса, а именно: «Не делайте сексуальных домогательств, пока вам не будет дан сигнал к спариванию» и «Не причиняйте вреда маленьким детям», хотя последнее гораздо шире и включает в себя физическое и другое насилие. . Это всегда было последовательной частью политики Церкви Сатаны с момента ее создания в 1966 году, как писал Питер Х. Гилмор в эссе в поддержку однополых браков :

Наконец, поскольку некоторые люди пытаются предположить, что наше отношение к сексуальности — «все дозволено», несмотря на наш заявленный базовый принцип «ответственности перед ответственным», мы должны повторить еще одно фундаментальное правило: философия Церкви Сатаны строго запрещает сексуальную активность с детьми как а также с животными, не являющимися людьми.

Сатанисты — плюралисты, принимающие геев, лесбиянок, бисексуалов, БДСМ , полиамористов , трансгендеров и асексуалов . В этом эссе он также заявил:

Церковь Сатаны — первая церковь, которая полностью принимает членов независимо от сексуальной ориентации, и поэтому мы поддерживаем свадьбы/гражданские союзы между взрослыми партнерами, независимо от того, являются ли они противоположного или одного пола. Пока присутствует любовь и партнеры желают вступить в отношения, мы поддерживаем их стремление к юридически признанному партнерству, а также права и привилегии, вытекающие из такого союза.

Антифашистские организации, несколько британских политиков и средства массовой информации выдвинули обвинения в том, что Орден Девяти Углов оправдывает и поощряет сексуальное насилие, и это было названо одной из причин, по которой британское правительство должно запретить O9A. Многие члены O9A открыто рассматривают изнасилование как эффективный способ подорвать общество путем нарушения его норм. Принятие Белой Звезды совершает изнасилования по их собственному признанию, а тексты O9A, такие как «Дрекианский путь», «Железные ворота», «Синяя птица» и «Антология изнасилований», рекомендуют и восхваляют изнасилование и педофилию, даже предполагая, что изнасилование необходимо для «вознесения Сверхчеловек». Чтобы повысить свой ранг, член ONA должен совершать нападения, наиболее рекомендуемыми из которых являются линчевание и сексуальное насилие. Материалы, пропагандирующие педофилию, также появились в собственном журнале ONA Fenrir . Как сообщает BBC News , «власти обеспокоены количеством педофилов, связанных с ONA».

Западный эзотерика и оккультизм

Основная статья: Сексуальная магия

Алистер Кроули в парадном облачении, фотография 1912 года.

Сексуальная магия — это термин для обозначения различных типов сексуальной активности, используемых в магических , ритуальных или других религиозных и духовных занятиях, встречающихся в западном эзотеризме , который представляет собой широкий спектр духовных традиций, встречающихся в западном обществе , или относится к коллекции мистических , эзотерических практик. знание западного мира . Одна из практик сексуальной магии — использование энергии сексуального возбуждения или оргазма с визуализацией желаемого результата. Предпосылкой сексуальной магии является концепция, согласно которой сексуальная энергия — это мощная сила, которую можно использовать, чтобы выйти за пределы обычно воспринимаемой реальности . Самые ранние известные практические учения сексуальной магии в западном мире исходят от американского оккультиста XIX века Паскаля Беверли Рэндольфа под заголовком « Тайны Юлисы» . Во второй половине XIX века сексуальный реформатор Ида Крэддок опубликовала несколько работ, посвященных священной сексуальности, в первую очередь «Небесные женихи» и «Психический брак» . Алистер Кроули написал обзор «Небесных женихов» на страницах своего журнала «Равноденствие» , заявив:

Это был один из самых замечательных человеческих документов, когда-либо созданных, и он, безусловно, должен найти постоянного издателя в виде книги. Автор МС. утверждает, что она была женой ангела. Она наиболее подробно излагает философию, связанную с этим тезисом. Ее обучение огромно. [...]

Эта книга имеет неисчислимую ценность для каждого, кто изучает оккультные вопросы. Без него не обходится ни одна магическая библиотека.

Алистер Кроули стал сотрудничать с Теодором Ройссом и Ордо Темпли Ориентис после публикации «Книги лжи» между 1912 и 1913 годами. Согласно рассказу Кроули, Ройсс подошел к нему и обвинил его в том, что он раскрыл сокровенную (сексуальную) тайну О.Т.О. в одной из загадочных глав этой книги. Когда Ройссу стало ясно, что Кроули сделал это непреднамеренно, он инициировал Кроули в IX° (девятую степень) OTO и назначил его «Суверенным Великим Генеральным Магистром Ирландии , Ионы и всей Британии».

Хотя О.Т.О. с самого начала включало учение сексуальной магии в высшие степени Ордена, когда Кроули стал главой Ордена, он расширил эти учения и связал их с различными степенями следующим образом:

• VIII°: обучались мастурбационным или аутосексуальным магическим техникам, называемым Малой Работой Солнца.
• IX°: гетеросексуальным магическим техникам. обучали
• XI°: анального полового акта . обучали магическим техникам

Хью Урбан , профессор сравнительного религиоведения в Университете штата Огайо , отметил акцент Кроули на сексе как на «высшей магической силе». По словам Кроули:

Книга Закона полностью решает сексуальную проблему. Каждый индивидуум имеет абсолютное право удовлетворять свой половой инстинкт так, как ему физиологически необходимо. Единственное предписание — относиться ко всем подобным действиям как к таинствам. Человек должен есть не как животное, а для того, чтобы иметь возможность творить свою волю. То же самое относится и к сексу. Мы должны использовать все свои способности для достижения единственной цели нашего существования.

Зороастризм

Дополнительная информация: Гомосексуализм и религия § Зороастризм , Инцест § Зороастризм и Религиозные взгляды на мастурбацию § Зороастризм

См. также

• Христианство и гомосексуальность
• Христианство и сексуальная ориентация
• Христианские взгляды на контроль над рождаемостью
• Эротическая пластика
• Запрещенные отношения в иудаизме
• гомосексуальность и иудаизм
• Инцест#Религиозные взгляды
• Еврейские взгляды на брак
• ЛГБТ-конфессии в иудаизме
• Мартин
• Назар иляль-мурд
• Педерастия в Древней Греции
• Полиамория # Принятие религиями
• Религиозная цензура
• Синдром религиозной травмы
• Сексуальное воздержание
• Сторона А, Сторона Б, Сторона X, Сторона Y (теологические взгляды)
• Закон о содомии
• Песня песен
• Церковь Объединения и секс
• Девственная богиня

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• Миллер, Патрисия Кокс (2005). Женщины в раннем христианстве . Вашингтон, округ Колумбия: Издательство Католического университета Америки.
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• Пайк, Сара М. (2004). «Часть II - «Все акты любви и удовольствия - мои ритуалы»: секс, гендер и священное» . Нью-эйдж и неоязыческие религии в Америке . Серия «Колумбийская современная американская религия». Нью-Йорк : Издательство Колумбийского университета . стр. 115–144. ISBN  9780231508384 . JSTOR   10.7312/pike12402.10 . LCCN   2003061844 .
• Вафля, Джим (1997). «Мохаммед и мужской гомосексуализм» . Стивен О. Мюррей и Уилл Роско (ред.). Исламский гомосексуализм: культура, история и литература . Издательство Нью-Йоркского университета. стр. 87–96. ISBN  978-0-8147-7468-7 .

Дальнейшее чтение

Общие сведения о сексе и религии.

• Эйслер, Риана , Священное удовольствие: секс, миф и политика тела: новые пути к власти и любви , HarperOne, 1996.
• Эндсё, Даг Ойстейн , Секс и религия: учения и табу в истории мировых религий , Reaktion Books, 2011. Также опубликовано на арабском, болгарском, китайском, итальянском, македонском, норвежском, польском, португальском, сербском, шведском и украинском языках.
• Хельминиак, Дэниел А. , Секс и священное – гей-идентичность и духовный рост , Routledge, 2006.
• Колодный, Дебра (редактор), «Благословенный Би-Дух: Бисексуальные люди веры» , Continuum, 2000. ISBN   0826412319 , ISBN   978-0826412317

буддизм

• Фор, Бернар , Красная нить: буддийские подходы к сексуальности . ISBN   0-691-05998-5 .
• Судо, Филип Т., Дзен-секс: способ занятий любовью . ISBN   0-06-075799-X .

христианство

• Босуэлл, Джон , Христианство, социальная толерантность и гомосексуализм: геи в Западной Европе от начала христианской эры до четырнадцатого века , University of Chicago Press, 1-е изд. 1980 год ISBN   0-226-06710-6 , мягкая обложка, 2005 г. ISBN   0-226-06711-4
• Де Ла Торре, Мигель А. , Лилия среди шипов: образ новой христианской сексуальности м. ISBN   978-0-7879-8146-4 .
• Керн, Ян, Соблазненные сексом: спасенные любовью . ISBN   978-0-7847-2158-2 .
• Кестенбергер, Андреас Дж. , Бог, брак и семья: восстановление библейского фундамента . ISBN   978-1-58134-580-3 .
• Кюфлер, Мэтью (редактор), «Диссертация Босуэлла: очерки христианства, социальной толерантности и гомосексуализма» , University of Chicago Press, ноябрь 2005 г. ISBN   0-226-45741-9
• Пейджелс, Элейн , Адам, Ева и Змей: Секс и политика в раннем христианстве , Винтаж 1988 г.

индуизм

• Смит, Дэвид, Индуистская эротика: исследование индуизма и сексуальности , IB Tauris, 2015.
• Ванита, Рут и Салим Кидвай, Однополая любовь в Индии: чтения из литературы и истории , Пэлгрейв, 2001.

ислам

• Диалми, Абдессамад (2010). Какое половое воспитание подходит молодым мусульманам? . Всемирный конгресс мусульманских филантропов. Архивировано из оригинала 3 марта 2016 г. Проверено 1 февраля 2019 г.
• Эль Феки, Шерин , Секс и Цитадель – Интимная жизнь в меняющемся арабском мире , Винтаж 2014.
• Джахангир, Джунаид бин (2010). «Подразумеваемые случаи однополых союзов мусульман» . В Самаре Хабиб (ред.). Ислам и гомосексуализм, Том 2 . АВС-КЛИО. ISBN  978-0-313-37904-8 .
• Кугл, Скотт Сирадж аль-Хакк, Гомосексуализм в исламе: критическое размышление о мусульманах-геях, лесбиянках и трансгендерах , SD Books 2010.
• Шмитт, Арно; Софер, Иехода (1992). Сексуальность и эротизм среди мужчин в мусульманских обществах . Хаворт Пресс. ISBN  978-1-56024-047-1 .
• Шмитт, Арно (2001–2002). Ливат в фикхе: мужской гомосексуальность? . Том IV. Журнал арабских и исламских исследований. Архивировано из оригинала 6 сентября 2011 г.

иудаизм

• Альперт, Ребекка , Как хлеб на тарелке седера: еврейские лесбиянки и трансформация традиций , издательство Колумбийского университета, 1998. ISBN   0231096615 , ISBN   978-0231096614
• Ботич, Шмули , Кошерный секс: рецепт страсти и близости . ISBN   0-385-49466-1 .
• Голд, Майкл. Место Бога в спальне? ISBN   0-8276-0421-1 .
• Браун, Бенджамин (декабрь 2013 г.). «Кедуша: сексуальное воздержание женатых мужчин в Гуре, Слониме и Толедот Аарон». Еврейская история . 27 (2–4): 475–522. дои : 10.1007/s10835-013-9182-x . S2CID   145210162 .

Критические перспективы

• Граватт, Сандра Л. (2008). Введение в еврейскую Библию: тематический подход . Вестминстер Джон Нокс Пресс. ISBN  978-0-664-23030-2 .
• Саврамис, Демосфен, Сатанизация женщины: религия против сексуальности . ISBN   0-385-04485-2 .

Другой

• Кебакз, Карен и Рональд Г. Бартон, Секс в приходе , первое издание, Вестминстер/John Knox Press, 1991. ISBN   0-664-25087-4
• Толле, Экхарт , Сила настоящего: Путеводитель по духовному просветлению , Библиотека Нового Мира, 1-е изд. 1999 г., мягкая обложка, 2004 г. ISBN   1-57731-480-8
• Экер, Рональд Л. (1995). И Адам знал Еву: Библейский словарь секса . Ходж и Брэддок. ISBN  978-0-9636512-4-2 .
• Косман, Адмиэль , Гомосексуализм - между ранним иудаизмом и ранним христианством (лекция в Винчестерском университете, Великобритания), профессор Адмиэль Косман, 20 марта 2014 г. Архивировано 28 мая 2020 г. в Wayback Machine.