Religion and Sexuality: A Qualitative Study on the Perceptions of Believers and Non-Believers

In human life, bio-psycho-socio-cultural and theological explanatory factors for the sexuality are determinative have an effect on sexual feelings, thoughts, attitudes behaviors. Religion is still seen as important predictor of thoughts about sexuality. The aim this research to assess perceptions believers in different religions faith groups non-believers who nationalities around world, which based qualitative data. data been analyzed by using interpretative phenomenological analysis a technique. Participants' views were collected both face-to-face web-based surveys with open-ended questionnaire created researcher collection methodology strategy. exploratory study, responses participants, such Japanese, Scottish, Indian, Pakistani, Caucasian, Irish, Arabic Asia, Dutch, Portuguese French, 13 (72%) male 5 (28%) female, (n=18) regarding their dating, marriage, pre-marital extra-marital sex, virginity, pornography, homosexuality analyzed. conclusion, study provides information personal participants small-sample types relationship between religion results indicate that (a) religious beliefs great belief systems; (b) Muslim more conservative orientations than other covered non-believers.