Why do the Christians always hate sex so much?

[Anomalocaris]

What Min said, plus just a dash of Ciel_Rouge. My take on it stems from the way the xtian religion was used as a means of socio-political control especially during the period popularly known as The Dark Age. I've said this before and often around the board, but in a nutshell: in a feudalistic society, the minority ruling élite needs some method to prevent the unwashed majority from making the connection between just how much hard graft and shit they are forced to endure just to be allowed to survive and all that wealth and fine food with which their leaders seem to be blessed. The most effective way in such a time of superstition, mythology and magic would have been to warn of the dangers of lusting after such material things and that the reward for a lifetime of shit is glory in some Shangri-La in the sky - coincidentally after you're dead and can't answer back. Essentially, sin is human nature, criminalised.

As I see it in such a scenario, the demonisation of sinful pleasures such as sex is all wrapped up in keeping the populace hard at work providing for your table and your tax coffers; after all, if the peasants are spending all their time shagging themselves senseless, beyond maintaining the population of course, who's going to work the land and keep you in the manner to which you're accustomed? They might just become doscontented with their lot - and don't those ploughshares look sharp...

I think it is the other way around. Christianity did not become repressive to better suite the dark ages, but rather the dark ages became christinaity is oppressive and without accountability

One might say christianity may not have had the power to repress without adverse consequence to itself in every way possible, but it would never forgo any opportunity to oppress so long as it perceives itself as having the power to do so without adverse consequence to itself.

The very framework of christianity, omnipotent and omniscient diety without competition and with strict dictates, and itself offering the sole means to interprete the dictates, is designed precisely to justify its own unaccountability