Sexual taboos in strict religious communities drive guilt or early marriage

Evidence

In general, sexuality and desire are often taboo and almost forbidden as “dirty.” This often applies to any form of sexuality that takes place outside of marriage, including masturbation. Young people are then faced with the dilemma of either violating religious commandments and incurring guilt or having to suppress all sexual desire (even in thought). This puts them in stark contrast to their peer group outside the community, and it also influences their first relationships, sometimes resulting in early marriages. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 557

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Culturally puritanical societies develop obsessive cleanliness as displaced sexuality — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1239; Public acknowledgement of eroticism’s link to violence is more taboo than ever. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 191