Why do people let their religion dictate how they approach their sex lives?

I think a large part of society is still stuck in culturally inherited ways of thinking, like the idea that getting married and making babies is just something adult do, no questions asked. Even for people who would otherwise be considered progressives and open-minded, there are still culturally based assumptions most of us have. I really think it's more of a cultural thing then a strictly religious thing, but religion encourages those ideas (it was meant to do that after all ^.

^ ). There is still, sadly, a stigma attached to being childfree and even to singledom. Some people can't comprehend how anyone can't love babies or for that matter NOT feel the need to be in a relationship no matter what.

Personally I'm only in a relationship because I want to be in a relationship with that individual person. Whereas a lot of people want to be in a relationship and so they go out to find someone to be in a relationship with, which strikes me as absurd. I think arranged marriages probably work in areas where they are the cultural norm.

They certainly would not work with someone who grew up seeing marriage as an ideal of romantic love. The only reason those kinds of arrangements aren't made in the west so much anymore is because our economy doesn't work in a way where marriage alliances have as much of an impact.

Sure, a lot of people get married because they think it's the 'proper' thing to do. Sometimes it's a religious background, sometimes it's just tradition without any specific religious basis. How we face the world, our idea, our mores, our outlook on life and relationships, comes from our upbringing.

What we see from out elders, what we are taught, etc, determine how we live. Since most people get their religious beliefs from their parents along with their other characteristics, it's natural that religious views on marriage would be transferred. That does not mean, of course, that those views are necessarily right OR wrong, but it explains whence they come.

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