Sex Life, the role of Religion

The role of Religion. 

Evidence suggests that those with strong religious beliefs or spiritual practices as well as those who reach puberty later than usual maybe more likely to delay intercourse.

However there are exceptions. 

My first experience of intercourse I was 16, but then I went without for 3 years because I was dating a girl he didn't believe in sex before marriage. After I proposed to her and she agreed to marry me she went and had sex with a guy at work. I broke up with her because I'm no longer trusted her. 

Strong religious beliefs can also lead too intense guilt or and inner conflict. 

My mother didn't know how to handle me. I had adopted the bishop of my church as a role model when I was 11, I told him about my feelings towards other boys. ‘It's normal' he said 'but it is a sin'. In Bible study we learned that man shall lie down with men. That was when I knew I was going to hell. The issue became one between me and god. ‘ How day you make me this way' I would pray ‘If I'm destined to go to hell?'

How an adolescent feels about being sexual with another person at this age. Morally in terms of religious beliefs will often predict the type or extent of his hers sexual experience. Having stronger academic goals, being a high achiever may also make it less likely that a young person will engage in adolescent sex. 

Unfortunately it works the other way around too. Girls ( usually in mixed schools) downplay academic achievements or allow them to slide in order to make themselves more attractive and less threatening to boys. 

This in turn may make it more likely that they will have sex. 

Men seldom make passes at a girl who surpasses. Franklin P. Jones.