Science Proves Atheists Have Better Sex
Atheists have far better sex lives than religious people who are plagued with guilt during intercourse and for weeks afterwards, researchers have found.
A study discovered that non-believers are more willing to discuss sexual fantasies and are more satisfied with their experiences.
Both groups of people admitted that they carried out the same activities such as masturbation, watching pornography, having oral sex and pursuing affairs.
Read more here.
A study discovered that non-believers are more willing to discuss sexual fantasies and are more satisfied with their experiences.
Both groups of people admitted that they carried out the same activities such as masturbation, watching pornography, having oral sex and pursuing affairs.
Read more here.
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berticussame is true for homos vs heteros.
i win twice!
SDGundamXDid you read their report? Register on their site and take a gander at it. You could hardly call what they did "science"--it's no surprise they are self-publishing it and it isn't appearing in a peer reviewed journal.
Basically, they put up an online survey and asked anyone who identified themselves as "secularists" to explain if they had ever belonged to a religion and, if so, how their attitudes towards sex had changed after leaving the religion.
They supposedly got over 10,000 responses in a week, which makes me suspect that some overenthusiastic people completed the survey multiple times since there is no mention of how or even if they controlled for multiple entries. The people who responded generally said their sex lives improved and they felt less guilt, but that doesn't mean atheists have better sex lives than religious people. It only means the people who responded to this survey claim (self-reporting is notoriously rife with error which is why you need to follow up with in-depth interviews and other means of triangulating the data) to have better sex lives and less guilt after leaving religion (and by "religion" they mean Christianity since overwhelmingly their respondents came from a Christian background--around 62%). You can't generalize further than that. The researchers admit recruiting their population sample from a bunch of atheist websites that are pretty clearly anti-religion, so I'm guessing that's skewed their results in a more extreme direction as well. At no point do they actually talk to religious people or ask about their experiences. For all we know, religious people are having cosmically orgasmic sex and these people who took the survey just didn't stick around long enough to experience it.
The researchers made it clear up front that they don't like religion, think it is harmful, and basically designed and carried out a study in such a way so as to get the results they wanted. This isn't "science," it is propaganda for the researcher's new book (coincidentally entitled "Sex and God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality").
marinarascience doesn't prove anything. also you imply any group of atheists is "having better sex" than non athiests. not true.
Gallowflak>> ^marinara:
science doesn't prove anything. also you imply any group of atheists is "having better sex" than non athiests. not true.
By "science doesn't prove anything" do you mean, like, in general?
xxovercastxx>> ^Gallowflak:
By "science doesn't prove anything" do you mean, like, in general?
Presumably, yes.
Any statement that claims scientific proof is bullshit; It's a great way to spot scams and such.
Science disproves only.
An accurate title for this might have been "Study suggests...". Not having read the article, and not being interested in doing so, I can't comment on whether the study itself was of any value or integrity.
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