Religion, Vaginas and Penises

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Oh I think there's at least a little more to it than control of desires. Human sex is dangerous compared to that of other animals. Absent modern medicine the maternal fatality rate for pregnant women was quite high. Humans remain infants is need of care and training for much longer than other animals. In the absence of birth control or modern medicine, it's not surprising we worried more about sex. It just that established religions are inherently conservative and don't change with changing tech so easily.

That's interesting, I hadn't thought of that! I've heard before about how lots of the weird rules of "morality" in the bible are nothing more than a sort of health and safety of the day. It's just they have say god commanded it, because otherwise no one would listen. And agreed, back then especially, sex can be dangerous and has severe consequences.