are people who are uncomfortable w/ their sexuality more attracted to religion?

[© tweed]

are people who are uncomfortable with their sexuality disproportionately attracted to religion?

[King]

Well, people who are uncomfortable with religion are generally more attracted to sexuality, so the reverse could be true.

[DC Al Fine]

Could you elaborate on your premise a bit?

I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt Tweed, but this sounds like an excuse to go "LOL Fundies!" based off a stereotype.

[afleitch]

No, but people who are uncomfortable with their sexuality can often be religious, where religion is coterminous with social conservative views either within the faith itself or the community that practices it.

[Deus Naturae]

Probably, but in general I'd say it's the other way around. Religion makes people uncomfortable with their sexuality much more so than sexual discomfort makes people religious.

[Kamala-Tim 2024]

Probably, but in general I'd say it's the other way around. Religion makes people uncomfortable with their sexuality much more so than sexual discomfort makes people religious.

Jesus a bit too tempting for certain people?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I'd say it goes beyond sexuality.  People who have some degree of discomfort in their personal life are more likely to seek various forms of solace, of which religion is one.

[© tweed]

Could you elaborate on your premise a bit?

I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt Tweed, but this sounds like an excuse to go "LOL Fundies!" based off a stereotype.

I wasn't quite going for that.  the most prominent religions all seem to assert that sex outside of the context for man-woman marriage is inherently immoral.  (despite their prominence in the West it's hard for me to imagine that any more than, say, 1 in 8 of followers of Abrahamic religions are "cool with" homosexual marriage.)  some (ie, the RCC, the largest church in the world) even goes so far as to condemn sex for pleasure within marriage, as opposed to sex with the express goal of procreation.

this could all be quite reassuring to people who feel guilt, anxiety, fear, etc as regards their own sexuality: it validates the guilt.  I've seen this process play out with a few people in my own life, which is why I brought it up.

[Tokugawa Sexgod Ieyasu]

I wasn't quite going for that.  the most prominent religions all seem to assert that sex outside of the context for man-woman marriage is inherently immoral.  (despite their prominence in the West it's hard for me to imagine that any more than, say, 1 in 8 of followers of Abrahamic religions are "cool with" homosexual marriage.)  some (ie, the RCC, the largest church in the world) even goes so far as to condemn sex for pleasure within marriage, as opposed to sex with the express goal of procreation.

While I guess that's technically true depending on how you define 'sex for pleasure', it's an arguably misleading and unfair characterization of the Catholic Church's position, since the thinking is that sex is supposed to have both of those functions concurrently (although the term used is 'unitive' rather than 'for pleasure').