saw rational articulated religions as engaged in a long-term struggle with more physical forms of religious experience linked to dance, intoxication and sexual activity. Durkheim pointed out how many primitive rites culminated in abandoning the distinction between licit and immoral behavior.

Freud's dour conclusion was that "In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has".

Sexual immorality

Coding of sexual behavior has historically

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