I don't know about you, but sampling the latent sexual desires of graduated Catholic school girls was quite an exciting foray into my adulthood. If there are any in this forum, you girls are nasty. Nasty in a great way I mean.

I was raised in a strict household, and there was no such thing as sex. I'm still trying to discover it, but I can't do it all on my own.

A lifelong sensualist, I have been atheist since age 13. For me, the two are unrelated.

I find the wonder and joy in life. The infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand, the joy of tasting a juicy, ripe peach. Intense, playful, passionate and determined, I have fun every day.

Sex is delicious.

The bible holds nothing for a gay person and so many kept trying to hold onto their religion and their gayness. A straight jacket view of sex. What is that, the missionary position?

I have the opposite problem. I was married to a woman who was raped, raised by parents with conflicting denominations. Were prudish about sex, and our relationship over 28 years evolved to what it was. Now that I am out of marriage, I am still feeling awkward and shy and nervous about engaging with another woman. (Have had 1 opportunity that was a wreck).

Good to read that you are free to be gay. There is life without religion and god.

As someone who grew up in Ireland where "Celibate" priests and Child abusers told us how we should live our sex lives, I have never been a fan of taking guidance from people like that. Religion told us that sometime wonderful and intimate and fun was a sin if you did it for fun and not to simply reproduce. So yes religious views on sex did turn me off religion in a big way. How could you not be turned off religion when it tells you something is dirty and sinful that is so good for you. It's fun, It's free, it's good for your mental and physical health. It's just Awesome.

I wa a true flower child but shy and afraid to just head on out to hait to join the real flowers so I did what I could within confines of my surrounding areas. I was faithful once "in love" and committed but when those failed I was a free spirit
many men so much fun

I found that something that is forbidden is a lot of times very nice to do.

I have! I'm dealing with it now. I have a voracious sexual appetite. I'm careful. I'm safe. I've made it 56 years ok. But I got married before, hoping that regular "normal" blessed god given sex would " cure " my desires for the creative fun crazy "get down wit cha bad self" sex. Nope. June Cleaver is sweet on old tv shows, but ....no. Got divorced. Ug. This saga takes more parts than I'm willing to tiny type via my phone right now. Suffice to say...since divorce, sex used to be more fun, but then I met a sweet woman. She's a church lady who went without sex for 20 years. I was thinking Surely! surely she will want to explore all those things she's never done! Nope. Dutiful sex. Because that's what you do. No creativity. No crazy nothin. Not even a bj after a year of dating, although I go down on her all the time.

Ever since I was a kid, I lived life to the fullest, despite my family being strict catholics. When I started getting interested in sex, I wasn't affected negatively at all. So in my case I would say I was lucky to always live life normally to the fullest.

I had a 9 year, on & off affair with my neighbor's wife in my long-ago youth. They were Jehovah's Witnesses both. She certainly didn't let religion get in the way of her sex life. Lady was a freak, in the best possible way.

(As for me, at the time I was just a more or less Gnostic Christian, I didn't believe any of it literally but I read it for mythological or mystical meaning, like Joseph Campbell wrote about.)