Why is sex a sin?

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If sex is a sin.. then the bonobo must be the Sodom and Gomorra of the ape kingdom..

Will they fry....... who can tell.. ?

Apparently.. these apes have discovered that having more sex goes towards having more peaceful relations.. and less aggression.

Do they know something we don't know then.. ?

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"The species is best characterized as female-centered and egalitarian and as one that substitutes sex for aggression. Whereas in most other species sexual behavior is a fairly distinct category, in the bonobo it is part and parcel of social relations--and not just between males and females. Bonobos engage in sex in virtually every partner combination (although such contact among close family members may be suppressed). And sexual interactions occur more often among bonobos than among other primates. Despite the frequency of sex, the bonobo's rate of reproduction in the wild is about the same as that of the chimpanzee. A female gives birth to a single infant at intervals of between five and six years. So bonobos share at least one very important characteristic with our own species, namely, a partial separation between sex and reproduction."

http://www.primates.com/bonobos/bonobosexsoc.html

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Sex became a sin because
1) Early christianity had to compete with religions where a main form of worship was having sex with a temple prostitute.
Who wouldn't want to be part of that church? Only people that were convinced that sex is a defilement, and fit only for its function of reproduction.

2) Chastity, virginity and celibacy became virtues at around the same time as a great famine in Europe. With so many people starving to death and no reliable means of birth control celibacy was the only means of controlling population. At this same time temperance and asceticism became prominent as well. So, a virgin was a heroine because she wasn't adding to the problem of starvation, and an ascetic who refused to eat was a hero, as his share could feed someone else.

Today the church seems to be confused about the original reason why sex was such a problem. Overpopulation was the problem then, and its the problem now. Therefore, christians shouldn't regard casual sex as a danger, just so long as people are concientiously using birth control. Instead they should look to the starvation found in the world today and think up a new solution to this very old problem.

Sex is a sin because it's fun, and anything that's fun that doesn't involve praise and worship of the Big Guy is a big no-no in the Xian church.

And shouting "Ohmigawd!" at the final moment doesn't qualify.

And of course it was that famous bacteria that said "Divide and conquer"

I've boiled it down to 2 possible reasons:

1) God is a prick. He creates humanity with the inherent capacity to derive such pleasure from sex, and then forbids us from actually practicing it

2) God couldn't care less about our sexual practices, but more how humans treated one another in life (as seen in the lessons in the Gospel of Matthew). Some guy with a small penis later started indoctrinating people about the "sin" surrounding something that God created us with the capacity for (and then almost immediately told us to perform)...

^ If there were a vote, mine would be for the second reason.

Maybe it was one of those self-emasculated Popes, eh?