Growing Up Religious?

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Hey, all!

I was born in the Deep South, and of course I was always told sex was a sin. It became a source of deep shame and guilt for me for a long time. Now, I feel like I’ve freed myself in many ways, even if sometimes it gets difficult because of that upbringing. My journey’s still going to learn about my sexuality and express it, I guess.

Has anyone else experienced this? How are you all dealing?
 
Hey, all!

I was born in the Deep South, and of course I was always told sex was a sin. It became a source of deep shame and guilt for me for a long time. Now, I feel like I’ve freed myself in many ways, even if sometimes it gets difficult because of that upbringing. My journey’s still going to learn about my sexuality and express it, I guess.

Has anyone else experienced this? How are you all dealing?

Two things.

God gave sex to mankind for pleasure as well as procreating.

The side effects of misuse ...through all of it's avenues can be not so good and God as well as society has a problem with that from time to time and in various circumstances.

Yes we have a few do do this and don't do that crowd even here.

Any way. Sin is Sin. We all have done things just as bad as what you are referring to in the eyes of God and never snapped to it.

If you were perfect YOU would not be here on earth.

Cut yourself some slack.
 
People can be raised by atheist parents with fucked up views of sex too. Trust me.
 
Those whose god(s) tell them sex is bad have the wrong god(s). If serious, they tend to go extinct. See how many Shakers remain.

Repressing sex drives is a powerful tool of social control. Guilt is a fine whip, as wielded by the Vatican for many centuries. As a VietNam-War-era slogan went, "Get-em by the balls and their hearts and minds will follow."

IIRC the USA Deep South / Bible Belt region leads the nation in incest and illegitimacy. I guess those folks aren't really serious. Or they're following the deeds, not the words, of their rich, corrupt, whoring televangelists.
 
It wasn't an issue that was stressed much.

But in way back then times, no one really needed to lecture on the topic.
The basic message pretty much got absorbed through the culture.

Unwed mothers were somewhat hidden away and shunned
(which meant their children too) and television
permeated entertainment and it also
adhered to the standard.

There is a new standard now.
It's a lot less repressed, but
I'm not sure that it's healthier.
 
20-something women today have a much healthier view of sex as an activity, in my experience.
 
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