Sexuality

Sexuality

• Catholics, Jews, and Muslims affirm the joy of sexual relationships between husband and wife.

• They agree on the two purposes of conjugal love: the good of the spouses themselves, and the transmission of life.

• Islam teaches that sexual relations cause ritual impurity, so a ritual purification happens before people engage in formal prayer after sex.

• Premarital sex, masturbation, homosexual acts, and pornography are sins.

• Islam is not against artificial birth control, but joined with Catholics at the UN conference in 1994 condemning government-imposed birth control regulations.