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.”

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.

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