Traditional western Christianity was a sex negative religion, regarding sex as necessary for procreation, but emphasizing celibacy as the ideal. This hostility to sex is not so much a part of Biblical Christianity as it is a major component of Christian theology. This was because Christianity appeared in a world dominated by the expansionist Roman Empire which had adopted and incorporated into its own intellectual tradition much of Greek philosophy and ethics.
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Bullough, V. L. (1992). Christianity and Sexuality (pp. 3–16). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7963-6_1
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