Assuming "bad sexual desires" are those desires that would inflict harm on others if acted upon, I think it might be the case that Christianity (or any religion with draconian sexual ethics) might at least be partially to blame for people developing such desires.
Here's why. Most denominations of Christianity prohibit all sex outside of marriage. Not only that, a large percent of them also prohibit masturbation or even just the thought of sex. However, because teenagers are so horny, even the most religiously conservative teenager will probably at least masturbate and view porn. After each act, the teenager will just confess their sin, promise to God not to do it again and then repeat it the next day, and then confess their sin...so on and so forth.
If a person believes that all sexual activity outside of marriage is sinful, then really to them there's no difference between fantasizing about normal sex, and say fantasizing about raping and murdering people. It's all sinful and it can all be confessed afterwards. While probably most young fundie masturbators won't have the desire at all to fantasize about rape perhaps for some the idea for whatever reason might pop in their head and instead of thinking "no, that's wrong and I'm not going to explore it" they would think "it's all sinful so I might as well explore fantasizing about raping people and then just confess it afterwards."
Here's why. Most denominations of Christianity prohibit all sex outside of marriage. Not only that, a large percent of them also prohibit masturbation or even just the thought of sex. However, because teenagers are so horny, even the most religiously conservative teenager will probably at least masturbate and view porn. After each act, the teenager will just confess their sin, promise to God not to do it again and then repeat it the next day, and then confess their sin...so on and so forth.
If a person believes that all sexual activity outside of marriage is sinful, then really to them there's no difference between fantasizing about normal sex, and say fantasizing about raping and murdering people. It's all sinful and it can all be confessed afterwards. While probably most young fundie masturbators won't have the desire at all to fantasize about rape perhaps for some the idea for whatever reason might pop in their head and instead of thinking "no, that's wrong and I'm not going to explore it" they would think "it's all sinful so I might as well explore fantasizing about raping people and then just confess it afterwards."
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
