Sex And Religion

A wide-ranging look at religious attitudes to sex in cultures around the world. Dag Oistein Endsjo examines the mores and meanings, rituals and rules of sex across the history of the world's faiths. He explains what people meant and mean by sex in a religious context, with whom sex has been or is permissible, and the consequences for individuals and society of deviant and correct sex. Topics include straight and gay sex, duty sex and abstinence, oral and anal sex, divorce and bigamy, ritual uses of sex, and ideas about sex beyond human existence.