Sex in Religion The ways in which the sexual body and sexual pleasure are viewed have changed drastically over time. This is due in large part to the teachings and interpretations of Saint Augustine and the Christian Church. Today and for the greater part of the last thousand years, the woman’s body is constantly degraded through the use of slang terms, its depiction in movies, books, and magazines. Religion in general has made successful …showed first 75 words of 902 total…

…showed last 75 words of 902 total…worship goddesses. Eventually sex, once a holy gift of the goddess became the source of all evil. The drastic change from free sexual expression, sexual pleasure, and the views of the sacred sexual organs can be traced, in part, back to Saint Augustine’s interpretations of the story of Adam and Eve. His ideas of male dominance and the corruptness of the female sexual body have, in part, led to the modern degradation of females.