Sex and Religion trailer

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Descrição: Sex and Religion trailer Watch it Here Soon: www.joiningthedots.tv All religions seek to regulate our sex lives, but can they agree what's permissible? This series of 4 programmes explores what the major religions have to say about various forms of sexual activity. The emphasis is on probing representatives of the leading faiths, as well as historians, psychologists and social scientists, to tease out the historical and doctrinal reasons for sexual commandments and taboos. Episode One: Sex For One Over the centuries, extraordinary and totally ill-founded claims have been made that masturbation can cause epilepsy, hysteria, insanity and blindness; nuns were once warned that persistent 'self-pollution' might even turn them into men. Only now is it widely accepted that the majority of the population, male and female, have regularly indulged. But even if masturbation has always been pretty well universal as well as harmless -- that doesn't mean to say that it's a moral practice. Most religions have condemned it, and many still do: as recently as 1975 the Vatican repeated its long-held view that masturbation was 'an intrinsically and seriously disordered act'. We hear from representatives of the major faiths, who explain whether they consider masturbation offensive to God, if so why and what punishments are laid down. Also contributing are historians, scientists and anthropologists who throw light on the circumstances in which the various faith communities have come to hold the views they do. . Episode Two: Gay Sex Sheikh Sharkhawy, an eminent and highly respected scholar at the Islamic Cultural Centre in central London has been quoted in Britain's gay press as calling for the 'burning alive' of all gays above the age of ten. This, he claims, will help prevent paedophilia and the spread of AIDS. This hard-line aversion to homosexuality is not new. In the view of Justinian I, The Christian ruler of the Roman Empire in the first half of the 6th century, homosexuality was such a heinous offence that it provoked God to punish whole populations with famine, pestilence and earthquake. The only fitting penalty for any lawbreaker was castration. The three religions worshiping the one God, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, draw upon the same biblical sources for their condemnation of gay sex. God is reported to have destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by fire and brimstone because of the inhabitants' homosexual activities. Also in the Old Testament is the specific instruction: 'If a man lieth with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed abomination, they both shall surely be put to death'. Episode Three: Marital Sex All the major religions attempt to regulate the sexual activity of married couples. Down the ages preachers, priests, sages and saints have established rules - when intercourse should be avoided and when it's permissible; what sort of foreplay and genital contact is allowed; what obligations a spouse has to satisfy the other; even whether sex purely for the fun of it is morally acceptable. Early Christian theologians were extremely puritanical and strict, approving only sex between man and wife when it was aimed at producing babies and where the man was on top. Other positions were deemed 'unnatural' because they were thought animal-like and inverted the nature of male and female, or because they were suspected of preventing conception and therefore contrary to the purpose of marriage. Even if the couple got that lot right but had sex during Lent, they could be made to fast for a year. So strongly did the Church discourage sex for its own sake that for Christians, even today, the very word 'sin' has come to signify first and foremost sexual offence. Episode Four: Fornication According to ancient Jewish law, the parents of a new bride had to produce a bloody sheet from the marriage bed as evidence of their daughter's virginity. If the husband accused her of having not been found a virgin, she was to be stoned to death by the men of her city on the doorstep of her own home. There was no requirement that the accuser be a virgin himself. Anthropologists argue that this tight control over women's sexuality was grounded in economics, not ethics. Female virginity until marriage helped ensure knowledge of who was the father of whom, understandable in a system where descent and inheritance were reckoned through the male line. According to the Biblical definition, adultery is any illicit sexual intercourse involving a married woman. The extramarital affair of a married man is not in itself a crime in the Bible, if his lover is unmarried. A wife was considered to be the husband's possession, and adultery constituted a violation of the husband's exclusive right to her.

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