Sex and religion are inevitably and intricately linked. There are few realms of human experience other than sex in which religion has greater reach and influenc

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How does religion relate to bodies and sexualities? Many people would answer, simply, "through repression," but the relationship is much more complicated than t

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At a moment when "freedom of religion" rhetoric fuels public debate, it is easy to assume that sex and religion have faced each other in pitched battle througho