A new study has revealed that atheists enjoy "far better" sex than the faithful.*

After interviewing nearly 15,000 people, researchers from Kansas University discovered that atheists enjoy sex more because they are unencumbered by the guilt that accompanies sex for believers, during, and for weeks after sex. Both atheists and the devout reported having roughly the same amount of sex and became sexually active at the same ages. But devoutly religious people rated their sex lives way lower than atheists.

Unsurprisingly, strict religions like Mormonism, produce followers with the most guilt, followed by Jehova's Witnesses, and then followers of the Pentecostal, Seventh Day Adventist, and Baptist faiths.

"Of people raised in very religious homes, 22.5 percent said they were shamed or ridiculed for masturbating compared with only 5.5 percent of people brought up in the least religious homes. Some 79.9 percent of people raised in very religious homes said they felt guilty about a specific sexual activity or desire while 26.3 percent of those raised in secular homes did," reported the Daily Mail.

"People who had lost their belief and became atheists reported a significant improvement in sexual satisfaction," the paper went on to say. Apparently the guilty feelings that religion creates around sex dissipate after a while.

It's not like religious beliefs actually prevent anyone from having sex, either: "Our data shows that people feel very guilty about their sexual behaviour when they are religious, but that does not stop them: it just makes them feel bad," the study's author said.

**Allow me to pre-empt some comments with the following disclaimer: This was a scientific study we've related, not a comment or a judgment on your personal beliefs or sex life. I'm not saying that you can't have great, guilt-free sex and be a religious person, and I'm not saying that you, personally, do not.*.

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Does your religion, or your guy's religion, make you feel guilty about sex? If not now, has it ever?__

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