by VorJack
Tom Rees over at Epiphenom has the run down several journal article stemming from surveys of the sex lives of university students:
Take a bunch of unmarried students of diverse backgrounds at a university in the south-west of the USA. Now which of them, do you suppose, has the raunchiest sex lives? Christians? Jews? The nonreligious? Or atheists, perhaps?
Well, the answer is… all of them!
Cindy Meston (at the University of Texas) and colleagues interviewed over 1,000 students in their survey of sexual behaviours, and found almost no difference between the different faith groups in what was reported. Virtually all of them reported in engaging in some form of premarital sex.
Broadly speaking, there wasn’t much difference between atheist and fundamentalist. Atheist and agnostic women fantasize more and more widely, and strong religions belief seems to have a mild suppressing effect on sexuality – particularly on women. Actually, fundamentalist Christian men reported having “more sexual partners in the past year than their non-religious counterparts!” Rees points to a ChristianityToday article about the dearth of evangelical men as one possible explanation:
Unfortunately, American evangelicals have another demographic concern: The ratio of devoutly Christian young women to men is far from even. Among evangelical churchgoers, there are about three single women for every two single men. This is the elephant in the corner of almost every congregation—a shortage of young Christian men.
The CT article goes on to explain some of the effects this has on the relationships.
Rees compares the above finding to a similar survey of older Americans, and find the results not much different:
It turns out that among oldies, too, there is very little relationship between religion and either sexual frequency or sexual satisfaction. Just as with the youngsters, however, unmarried women who were also religious were also less likely to have had sex.
But religion had no effect on male sexual activity. Makes you wonder why religion is so popular among women in the US, and yet shunned by men!
By and large, it seems like we atheists are not living up to our debauched public image. I’m married, as is Daniel, so we need some of you to pick up the slack.
I will promptly fuck a baby and a goat to express my debauched Atheist culture.
Too far?
Well, why not? As atheists we have no moral authority telling us not to engage in bestiality and talk about it on the internet, after all.
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LMAO…I need to put that warning on my blog….
I am actually gunning for a Evangelist to wrongly tell us that we’re all perverts and sinners. Not all of us sin!
So converting to a religion won’t improve my sexual life? I will have to find other ways
Surprising considering some of the goodies that the Inquisition had laying around – you’d think Catholics would be more kinky than a slinky.
Actually, from the study if you convert to evangelical Christianity it should improve your odds of finding girls.
Could always pretend – I reckon I know more about Christianity then most so-called Christians….I have at least read the Bible if only searching to debunk it.
But that would be dishonest. Oh! I’m an atheist – so that’s OK then.
I see a plan hatching. 1. Atheists join evangelical congregations en masse. 2. Befriend and subsequently seduce lonesome evangelical women. 3. de-convert e.w. 4. ??? 5. PROFIT!
I, for one, shall be live up to my reputation of immoral godless heathen.
Apparently also gramatically challenged. Meh.
“… be living up…”
If I must, then I must. It’s a hard life.
Take one for the team gents, the wed among us are rooting for you!
A couple of years ago, a friend who had subscribed to eharmony showed me an article on their site that alleged that non-religious people were more likely to be unfaithful. The funniest part was, that research conducted in the Netherlands was used as the basis for this conclusion. What percentage of Dutch church-goers are under 40, I wonder?
They probably researched 28 countries until they found one where they could manipulate the data how they wanted.
I think anyone going to Church in the Netherlands is over 75 or more.
If you ignore the sects of course.
“Unfaithful”, tee-hee
5%
I remember my girlfriend crying out” Jesus Jesus Jesus O’Christ” so Jesus must have been Irish
Married here, too. Good luck and god speed to all of you single people. Hehe
Is that a popular stereotypical feature of being an atheist, btw? That we like maths? Probably my worst subject in school :|
That was a comment for the pic btw. ‘The nonreligious? Or atheists’ <–typo?
Us atheists/satan-worships need to get back on the horse and *whip* it into shape! Then tie it up, etc
This comment from VorJack
” I’m married, as is Daniel, so we need some of you to pick up the slack.”
is a classic example of atheists not living up to our public image. If we’re so immoral then any promise of celibacy would be forgotten at the first proposition out of sight of your spouse! It’s time we hang our heads in shame and admit we’re not debaucherous, lecherous, pleasure seeking animals.
For the record, I’m married 15 years with no marital affairs. Guilty of having morals too.
Over 10 years here and no issues.
I also have the occasional moral. =)
You guys are both newbies. My wife and I are celebrating 20 years next month.
Hrm… Newbies eh? We spent 5 years living in sin before we tied the knot… though I imagine you might have me by a couple of years with your premarital bliss.
Another myth busted. Atheists are find and moral without god. Later in the news, dog bites man!
“Among evangelical churchgoers, there are about three single women for every two single men. This is the elephant in the corner of almost every congregation—a shortage of young Christian men.”
[gets haircut, splashes on some cologne, puts on "sunday best", takes granny's old bible off the shelf, repeatedly beats his self-respect with a truncheon]
Well everybody I’m off to go a courting! Se ya later.
Lol – obvious joke but superbly well delivered :D
I’m doing my part!
done and done. Though even my housemates have started calling my exploits this year outrageous…
Hmm… currently I’m in a committed but open relationship and have a date with another woman (that my primary partner knows about) in a week’s time. I’ve also got some other prospects, including women who are in relationships with other men.
So obviously, some of you others aren’t pulling your weight!
Polyamory.
Monogamy is outdated…archaic. Traditional marriage forms are for Children of the Book(s) and other saps – blaze a trail! Free your mind and heart!
EVOLVE!
we can’t keep calling it just “polyamory”… too many permutations. We need more specific names for the different types of relationship. That was one of the big issues when me and my primary partner got together: what do we call ourselves?
:P
I don’t like polyamory either…but what is a good alternative?
I don’t even tell people about my relationship. They just don’t get it. Why would I want to deny my man an opportunity to love more? That doesn’t necessarily mean just sex.
Old ways, old attitudes.
The language has not yet caught up with the way we love, therefore the language must be made to catch up!
NAH…lets just call what we don’t understand sin…
:P
Agreed, polyamory sounds like some kind of synthetic material used for counter tops. Comes in taupe, oxblood, and battleship grey.
LOL.
“And so I went through my high school years thinking that calculus was merely something that dentists scraped off your teeth.”
Haha! I think it’s Greek for “pebble”. I find it good for the stuff scraped off your teeth *and* for tiny ever-smaller increments of time in the graph of a derivative.
Latin, and yes, “pebble”.
Well I guess that stat makes sense. 60% of the girls I’ve dated have been from Churches.
And man are they “supressed”.
If it comes down to a choice between a relationship with an evangelical woman and being alone, I opt for the latter…
Man, haven’t you heard? The crazier they are, the better they are in bed! =D
…though I guess there is the problem of the time you have to occupy AFTER sex.
Do it again.
Married? Many of the evangelical men that I know don’t seem to let that bother them.
(sorry if my multiple posts are annoying, this will be the last in this one! ^_^)
I guess one good thing about Christianity (sex-wise), is that EVERYTHING is taboo. Growing up as a Catholic that’s what it felt like anyway (“we can’t be within a foot of each other?!”). Everyone knows that doing taboo things is exciting right? So Christians have so much to get excited about! lol.
Slightly off topic, but a great one-liner for a comic complaining about chastity rings -
“If you want to wear a ring to show you’re not having any sex, get married like the rest of us”
“from”, not “for”. Duh.
As much as I think that is a horrible statement, I had to laugh out loud.
I’m banging, I’m banging!
Back in college in the 70s I read my wife’s comparative religion textbook that was discussing the Great Awakening of the 19th century. A number of the new “cults” including the Mormons, Amana and Oneida attracted more women than men and in that time you were expected to marry within your faith and these groups developed a number of techniques to both bring in more men and to provide wives. Polygamy was the Mormon solution while Amana and Oneida had varieties of “group marriage” among other sexual quirks that made them unpopular with their more traditional neighbors.
When I read abortion statistics years ago, it said Catholic women accounted for 24% of abortions. Now if they and others could stop being two-faced about it, and become honest, and stand up for both the right to choice and prevention contraception…..
They tend not to be two-faced about it. Last I checked, a bare majority of Catholic women in the US were openly pro-choice, a fact that causes the Holy See much pain and discontent.
Woo hoo! My *good* news for the day!
Come on boys! Keep up! XD
I did find it ironic in college when my supposedly religious (Catholic) boyfriend told me how many people he’d slept with… in high school. And he went to an all-boys Catholic Jesuit HS. Apparently the sister all-girls schools were frisky too.
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