Atheists Do It Better: Why Leaving Religion Leads to Better Sex

[cleanhippie]

A new study shows that religious people have as much sex as atheists, but with less sexual satisfaction and more guilt.

May 17, 2011

Do atheists have better sex? Yes. According to science, that is -- and more specifically, according to the recently released "Sex and Secularism" study.

In January 2011, organizational psychologist Darrel Ray, Ed.D. (psychologist for 30 years and author of The God Virus as well as two books on psychology) and Amanda Brown (undergraduate at Kansas University, focused on sexuality and sex therapy) conducted a sex survey of over 14,500 people -- atheists, agnostics, and other people in the secular community. The survey was looking at religion, atheism, and sex: how religion affects sex, how leaving religion affects sex, whether lifelong atheists feel differently about sex than people who have recently deconverted, and so on. The report -- "Sex and Secularism: What Happens When You Leave Religion?" -- is on the Internet, and if you want all 46 pages of the naughty details, including the charts and graphs and personal stories, you can download it free (you just need to register on the site).

But if you just want to know the gist?

Leaving religion improves people's sex lives.

A lot.

http://www.alternet.org/sex/150978/atheists_do_it_better%3A_why_leaving_religion_leads_to_better_sex/

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Well, that certainly would explain a lot.

[meegbear]

1. Bt what do you yell?

[Poll_Blind]

2. "Oh my Dawkins! Oh my DAWKINS! OH MY DAWKINS!"

:rofl:

PB

[cleanhippie]

3. Thats funny.

[meegbear]

4. BWAH-HAHAHAHAHA!!!

[Ninjaneer]

6. Thought it was common knowledge.

[Ninjaneer]

5. I am of the opinion that

leaving religion leads to better enjoyment of life in general. This study just validates the sex aspect of it. If they were to do a study on the enjoyment obtained from, say, watching a sun rise, I am confident similar overall results would emerge.

[GKirk]

7. It's hard to concentrate on sex when...

...you think a crowd of sky-ghosts are watching you.

[rug]

8. That's a myth.

[darkstar3]

9. .

:spray:

[cleanhippie]

10. Wow, rug, you DO have a sense of humor!!!!

YOU saying something is a myth! Now THATS frikking FUNNY!!!!!!

[ZombieHorde]

11. Funny. nt

[struggle4progress]

12. Whoa! Some atheists are adopting modern advertising techniques:

Try atheism! It makes you more intelligent, brightens your teeth, and improves your sex life!

:rofl:

[darkstar3]

13. Feeling skeptical, are we? Too bad it's a temporary phenomenon...

[cleanhippie]

14. What a total fabrication! Atheism does NOT brighten your teeth.

But you know that, just as you know that no one EVER claimed atheism makes one more intelligent or improves one's sex life either.


And while I can appreciate your attempt at humor, both of those traits (higher intelligence and better sex life) seem to be more prevalent in those that self-identify as atheists. Atheism may actually be a by-product of those traits, not the other way around.

But you know that.

[struggle4progress]

15. I guess I was misled by Ray's project title "Sex and Secularism: What Happens When

You Leave Religion?" and the alternet title from your OP "... Leaving Religion Leads to Better Sex"

Somehow I read that as saying that leaving religion leads to better sex

[cleanhippie]

16. Yes, leaving religion. Nowhere does it state the Atheism is cause.

Leaving ones religion and being an atheist are two very different things.

Nowhere does it make anything even resembling the statement you made.....Try atheism! It makes you more intelligent, brightens your teeth, and improves your sex life!