Why is the religious right obsessed with sex?

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. You can't lump them all together as 'taboo'

Eating, for instance, is part of many religious observances. Bathing is generally seen as something that marks us out as apart from other animals, and, again, can be part of religious observances (baptism, Muslims washing before prayers, etc.). But religions don't demand that that have an exclusive hold on eating or bathing, either. I don't think you can call either of those 'taboo'.

Excreting and urinating are not things that are particularly associated with religious taboos, I'd say - more general cultural ones. There's a certain naturalness to that - shit is unhealthy to handle, after all - but I don't know of religions that make it a particular thing to be ashamed of, any more than general societies do.