I’ve never heard of a culture that shames people for being too stingy with sex.
Huh? those same cultures (e.g. Western countries in the Victorian Era) did shame people for being too stingy with sex—they were expected to have lots of children, and so made birth control very taboo (even the calendar method). Not having children (even for men) was considered an abrogation of responsibility. (A president of a Mormon college recently had very nasty things to say about men who are unmarried and over 25.)
In current, conservative churches, one pastor gave a lecture encouraging married couples to have more sex, and I heard about a different such church on the radio that was promoting the same message. (See also C. S. Lewis’s discussion of the awesomeness of sex within marriage in Mere Christianity.)
The sex they condemned was sex outside of marriage, which, given the technologies at the time, did have significant risks. Now, there is good reason to debate the magnitude of these risks, but it’s not some kind of bizarre phenomenon.
Huh? those same cultures (e.g. Western countries in the Victorian Era) did shame people for being too stingy with sex—they were expected to have lots of children, and so made birth control very taboo (even the calendar method). Not having children (even for men) was considered an abrogation of responsibility. (A president of a Mormon college recently had very nasty things to say about men who are unmarried and over 25.)
In current, conservative churches, one pastor gave a lecture encouraging married couples to have more sex, and I heard about a different such church on the radio that was promoting the same message. (See also C. S. Lewis’s discussion of the awesomeness of sex within marriage in Mere Christianity.)
The sex they condemned was sex outside of marriage, which, given the technologies at the time, did have significant risks. Now, there is good reason to debate the magnitude of these risks, but it’s not some kind of bizarre phenomenon.