Successful relationships are most often favored by the following partner traits: maturity, intelligence, tolerance, friendliness, sacrifice, mutual attraction, similar sexual temperaments, or a happy family home. The basic value of the zodiacal typology is the statement that there is a diversity of human characters and some of them more, others less facilitate the achievement of harmony in the relationship, but the otherness of character is not the basic factor in determining chances for satisfaction in marital life. Zodiacal typology, evaluates the compatibility and similarity of several characteristics important for the partner's ties, such as: sex, love, marriage, friendship, running a household.
Middle East religions and sex
In the culture of Mesopotamia, the family was patriarchal. The fullness of power belonged to the father. Divorce was allowed only in the case of infertility and long absence of the husband at home. In the Babylonian religion priests who took part in the wedding ceremonies and in sacred prostitution played an important role. Her initial significance, expressing cult of fertility, turned into regular prostitution over time. In Persia - current Iran - the beliefs of the peoples of Iran resemble the beliefs of Indians, which indicates the affinity of both cultures. Religion in Phenicia was a product of rural civilization and had a naturalistic and quite primitive character. Influenced the evolution of Judaism, fostering the strictment of sexual morality, eg worship of the goddess Ashtore, patron of fertility and sexual love
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Buddhism and sex
In the face of sex, Buddhism takes a distance attitude. He recommends asceticism as a way to overcome sensuality at certain stages of life. The attitude towards women is ambivalent - the woman is the "bearer of evil," but she has the right to gain sanctity, but in the next masculine incarnation. Married and family life is a temporary form of existence. A partner relationship between spouses is promoted; Ethical commands recommend: mutual love, respect, ensuring good material conditions to the wife, mutual faithfulness. Celibacy facilitates attaining enlightenment, but it is not its condition.
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Christianity and sex
From the Old Testament to the Christian religious doctrine penetrated, among others: description of the creation of man, the history of the first sin (for a long time justifying male superiority and distrust of a woman), model of a faithful woman subjected to her husband (Sara, Rebeka), educational principles (by discipline and reprimanding). The teachings of Christ introduced a number of new views: the principle of the indissolubility of marriage, the strengthening of monogamousness, a friendly attitude to family life and towards women, the reduction of rigor in the so-called fallen women, examples of paternal love. family keeping religious norms.
In Christianity there are three basic, different concepts of the family: Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant.
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Judaism and sex
Judaism placed in the hierarchy of importance a spiritual factor above the flesh, but did not ignore it.
In the Old Testament, sexual transgressions such as incest, sodomy, adultery, transvestism and rape are strictly adhered to, the taboo of nudity is strictly observed, and the preservation of virginity and pre-marital purity were in force. Sexual morality was protected by the law of early marriage. Virginity was not a religious value, but the state of life in a mature woman was humiliation and misfortune. Celibacy was considered to be contrary to nature. The rank of marriage was high - it freed from bad drives and passions. The sense of existence gave birth to having children.
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Sect and sex
Attitudes towards sex in sects and revealed sexual behavior of sect members are a very complex phenomenon. Today there are thousands of sects that are a branch of the world's great religions, as well as those that accept only elements of various doctrines.
The secrecy of sects, oaths imposing silence, inaccessible to foreign rituals - all this multiplies suspicions, promotes rumors, and sensations, strengthened by the hostile attitude of the surroundings. Data on various sects, both those existing in the past and contemporary, allow to conclude that their attitudes towards sex are mostly polar extreme.
On one side there are sects with rigorous and puritanistic attitudes that perceive sex as a source of evil and sin, and even marriages recommend avoidance of intercourse (the Salesians and scoffers even castrated). There are currently few sects of this nature, most often they are branches of Orthodoxy and some Protestant currents.
On the other hand, there are sects in which there is a great deal of morals, life in an erotic commune, where sexual organs are held, leaders have real harems and force co-religionists to prostitution.
There are also sects in which there is ritual violence and sexual torture - violence against sexual organs, brutal and sadistic rape, mental enslavement, ritual killings.
The slogans were prepared on the basis of: Zbigniew Lew-Starowicz: Love and Sex. Encyclopedic dictionary. Wroclaw 1999
