{"id":45069,"date":"2020-02-29T14:23:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T18:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/?p=45069"},"modified":"2020-02-29T14:23:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T18:23:26","slug":"sociology-devout-married-christians-have-best-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/2020\/02\/sociology-devout-married-christians-have-best-sex.html","title":{"rendered":"Sociology: Devout Married Christians Have Best Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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As for studies on relatively more sexual fulfillment among Christians, I have a paper about that, too:<\/p>\n

Christian Sexual Views and Support from Sociology<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>Excerpt:<\/em> A large-scale study of 1,100 American adults by the Family Research Council found that 72% of married people who attended church weekly reported being \u201cvery satisfied\u201d with their sex lives, thirty points higher than their unmarried counterparts, and thirteen points higher than other marrieds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nMuch more is easily able to be found in Google searches:<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/voices\/religious-couples-are-the-most-sexually-satisfied.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Religious couples are the most sexually satisfied<\/a> (John Stonestreet and G. Shane Morris, The Christian Post<\/em>, 6-2-19)<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3119480\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Role of Religion in Shaping Sexual Frequency and Satisfaction: Evidence from Married and Unmarried Older Adults<\/a> (Michael J. McFarland, Jeremy E. Uecker, and Mark D. Regnerus, J. of Sex Research<\/i>, March 2011)<\/p>\n<blockquote>Excerpt<\/em>: Religiously inclined older married individuals tend to have more pleasurable sex than their non-religious counterparts, . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/05\/the-sexual-revolutionaries-got-sexual-satisfaction-all-wrong\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Sexual Revolutionaries Got Sexual Satisfaction All Wrong<\/a> (David French, National Review<\/em>, 5-22-19)<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/are-religious-faith-and-sexual-satisfaction-mutually-exclusive-or-surprisingly-mutual\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Are Religious Faith and Sexual Satisfaction Mutually Exclusive\u2014or Surprisingly Mutual?<\/a> (Jeffrey Dew & Brian J. Willoughby,\u00a0Institute for Family Studies<\/em>, 5-16-19)<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.intellectualtakeout.org\/article\/and-most-sexually-satisfied-group-people\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">And the Most Sexually Satisfied Group of People Is\u2026<\/a> (Annie Holmquist, Intellectual Takeout<\/i>, May 21, 2019)<\/p>\n<blockquote>Excerpt<\/em>: When asked about the sexual satisfaction each of these individuals experience in their relationships, it was found that highly religious couples report the highest levels. The women in these highly religious relationships have a particularly high score. By comparison, couples with mixed religious viewpoints or completely secular ideology report lower satisfaction levels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/record\/2019-00519-001\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sex guilt or sanctification? The indirect role of religiosity on sexual satisfaction<\/a> (Leonhardt, N. D., Busby, D. M., & Willoughby, B. J., Psychology of Religion and Spirituality<\/em>, 2019)<\/p>\n<blockquote>Excerpt<\/em>: Greater general religiosity was indirectly related to greater sexual satisfaction for men and women through greater sexual sanctification.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nCarol Tavris and Susan Sadd, The Redbook Report on Female Sexuality<\/em> (New York: Delacorte Press, 1977): cited in <a href=\"http:\/\/marripedia.org\/effects_of_religious_practice_on_sexual_behavior\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cEffects of Religious Practice on Sexual Behavior\u201d<\/a> (Marripedia<\/em>).<\/p>\n<blockquote>Excerpt<\/em>: Those who attend religious services more frequently are more likely to be happy in their sexual relationship. Very religious women report greater satisfaction in sexual intercourse with their husbands than do moderately religious or non-religious women.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/downloads.frc.org\/EF\/EF15J69.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Religious Worship and Sexual Fulfillment<\/a> (Marriage and Religion Research Institute<\/em>)<\/p>\n<blockquote>Excerpt<\/em>: Those who worship weekly were most likely to report feeling satisfied during intercourse with their current sexual partner (97 percent). Those who worshiped weekly were most likely to report feeling thrilled and excited during intercourse. Whereas those who never worshiped were least likely to report feeling thrilled and excited. . . . Those who never worshiped were almost twice as likely as those who attended church weekly or more to have reported having \u201cslightly\u201d or \u201cnot at all\u201d enjoyed intercourse with their current sexual partner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n***<\/p>\nRelated Reading<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/2019\/09\/is-premarital-sex-morally-wrong-why-a-dialogue.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Is Premarital Sex Morally Wrong? Why? 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Formerly a campus missionary, as a Protestant, Dave was received into the Catholic Church in February 1991, by the late, well-known catechist and theologian, Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave\u2019s articles have appeared in many influential Catholic periodicals, including \"This Rock\" (now called \"Catholic Answers Magazine\"), \"Envoy Magazine\" (Patrick Madrid), \"The Catholic Answer,\" \"The Coming Home Journal,\" \"Gilbert Magazine\" (American Chesterton Society), and \"The Latin Mass.\" He also writes a featured column for every issue of \"The Michigan Catholic\": published by the archdiocese of Detroit, and was editor for most of the apologetics tracts published by the St. Paul Street Evangelization apostolate. Dave\u2019s apologetics and writing apostolate was the subject of a feature article in the May 2002 issue of \"Envoy Magazine.\" He served as the staff moderator at the Internet discussion forum for The Coming Home Network, from 2007-2010. Dave has been interviewed on many nationally syndicated Catholic radio shows, including \"Catholic Answers Live\" (twice), \"Faith and Family Live\" (Steve Wood), \"Kresta in the Afternoon,\" \"Son Rise Morning Show,\" \"Catholic Connection\" (Teresa Tomeo), and \"The Catholics Next Door.\" His large and popular website, \"Biblical Evidence for Catholicism,\" was online from March 1997 to March 2007, and received the 1998 Catholic Website of the Year award from \"Envoy Magazine.\" His blog of the same name (now transferred to Patheos), begun in February 2004, contains more than 1,500 papers, at least 500 debates or dialogues, and over 50 distinct \"index\" web pages. Unsolicited correspondence has indicated many hundreds of conversions (or returns) to the Catholic faith as a result, by God's grace, of these writings. Dave's conversion story was published in the bestselling book \"Surprised by Truth\" (edited by Patrick Madrid; San Diego: Basilica Press, 1994). Sophia Institute Press has published six of his books: \"A Biblical Defense of Catholicism\" (Foreword by Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J., 1996 \/ 2003), \"The Catholic Verses\" (2004), \"The One-Minute Apologist\" (2007), \"Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths\" (2009), \"The Quotable Newman\" (editor: 2012), and \"Proving the Catholic Faith is Biblical\" (2015). He is co-author (with Dr. Paul Thigpen) of the inserts for \"The New Catholic Answer Bible\" (Our Sunday Visitor: 2005), and editor for \"The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes, Quips, and Cracks from the Pen of G. K. Chesterton\" (Saint Benedict Press \/ TAN Books: 2009). \"100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura\" was published by Catholic Answers in May 2012. His \"Quotable Wesley\" compilation was published by (Protestant \/ Wesleyan publisher) Beacon Hill Press in April 2014. Several of his 49 books are bestsellers in their field. Dave maintains a popular personal Facebook page, a Facebook author page, and has a Twitter account as well. He offers almost all of his books in e-book form on his own Biblical Catholicism site (http:\/\/biblicalcatholicism.com\/), at a permanent deep discount: only $2.99 for ePub, mobi, and AZW, and $1.99 for PDF. His writing has been enthusiastically endorsed or recommended by many leading Catholic apologists, authors, and priests, including Dr. Scott Hahn, Fr. Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Marcus Grodi, Patrick Madrid, Steve Ray, Tim Staples, Devin Rose, Mike Aquilina, Al Kresta, Karl Keating, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Brandon Vogt, Marcellino D'Ambrosio, and Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave has been happily married to his wife Judy since October 1984. 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