Sex seen as a sacred act of getting closer to God in Abrahamic religions

Sex does bring people closer to god. That's why you can hear them saying "oh my god" during the crucial moments.
 

Philip

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Let's ask this question: Are some people (ancient Romans, Nazis, some Serbs 1991) so guilt-ridden about sex that they welcome the occasion of war so that they might commit rape guilt-free and with the perfect excuse?

Your logic is completely broken. Yes, war brings out the worst in human nature. Yes, rape by soldiers is as old as war itself. However, this is no way indicates that the soldiers are guilt-ridden concerning sex. Nor does it indicate that war-time rape is driven by such guilt.
 
Um... I think you'd need the world's earliest POD on record to get the last result, since according to Genisus in the Abrahamic version of history nakedness is the first sin people realized after getting knowledge of what is good and evil, meaning it's condemned as bad right from the get go. You need to somehow get around the story of Adam and Eve from getting a promenant showing in the Bible, which given it's importance in explaining so many basic aspects about the world and humanity....

Not TOO early. The Adam-Eve being thrown out of Eden is quite POSSIBLY no older than the Babylonian Captivity of the Jews (according to some scholars, Eden represents the Promised Land/the Temple, and "Original Sin" a sort of composite of sins of abandoning/straying from G*d/YHWH).

So just avoid the graphic description of them realizing they're naked and we MIGHT end up with a whole different view of things. Funnily enough, though, the scriptures make no mention of a hereditary sin (Eve's curse to be in pain during childbirth or Adam's to till the ground or even the serpent's to lose the use of its legs can hardly be described as punishment for a hereditary sin, more just a way of explaining why things are like that), the serpent being Satan or even that humanity somehow "fell" are all later interpolations to the text. The evidence that the Moses-text is older than the Eden story is also there: in the desert, Moses hoists a bronze serpent aloft and all who are stricken with leprosy that look at it are healed. Hardly something you'd expect of a creature "cursed" by God.
 
Your logic is completely broken. Yes, war brings out the worst in human nature. Yes, rape by soldiers is as old as war itself. However, this is no way indicates that the soldiers are guilt-ridden concerning sex. Nor does it indicate that war-time rape is driven by such guilt.
Also to add to this, crisis can make even the best of us fall.
 
Your logic is completely broken. Yes, war brings out the worst in human nature. . .
As much as I might wish to take credit for a colorful theory which is spectacular wrong, it's in fact not my theory! :)

It's the whole Sigmund Freud idea that sex is shot through even the most seemingly non-sex activities. And even though I'm generally skeptical of Freud, I don't want to make him some reverse authority, where if he says something, the opposite is true.

Or . . . the idea that bonobo chimps are both more sexual and less warlike than regular chimps.

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Or, Nike had a shoe factory in Indonesia and most of the workers are women. The PR guy almost said because they're more submissive. A little like the chief executives are assembling a harem? A male boss who's a mean guy could use the situation for sexual harassment. A more regular male boss might just enjoy being surrounded by women and being looked up to, at times both literally and figuratively, maybe without fully realizing all the social and sexual dynamics involved.
 
Also to add to this, crisis can make even the best of us fall.
and some soldiers don't commit rape, even in bad situations, maybe due in considerable part just to good luck.

So yeah, in addition to facing the bad stuff forthrightly, I think we should also study how things go right, and how we can add to this side of the equation.
 
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