Notes about Sexuality and Religion

by – Courtney L. Crosby, David M. Buss, Cindy M. Meston – Springer Nature 2019

There is evidence to suggest that sexual disgust has an inhibitory effect on sexual arousal, and that it is involved in the development and maintenance of sexual pain disorders. While research has begun to investigate the influence of sexual disgust as it relates to female sexual arousal disorder and orgasm, the overall picture of whether or not sexual disgust facilitates sexual dysfunction in these areas is unclear.

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The behavioral aspects of pathogen avoidance are largely driven by the psychological experience of disgust.
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Evolutionary accounts hypothesize that disgust evolved to solve or ameliorate three distinct adaptive problems: avoiding consumption or contact with infectious agents, avoiding risky sexual situations or contact with suboptimal partners, and avoiding the violation of social norms.
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In fact, in previous volumes of the DSM, there was a disorder called sexual aversion disorder. This disorder was defined as “persistent or recurrent extreme aversion to, and avoidance of, all or almost all, genital sexual contact with a sexual partner” . The reasoning behind the removal of this disorder was the lack of empirical support and comorbidity of this disorder with other anxiety disorders.

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