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The book by the renowned Norwegian scholar and human rights activist Dag Eystein on Endshøe analyses a vast amount of information about the complex relationship between sex and various religions throughout human history and in different world cultures. Sex and religion are inevitably and inextricably linked. Religion forbids and regulates, condemns and blesses, punishes and rewards. Whether sex is sacred or becomes disgusting depends entirely on how a religion defines it. Your sexual partner, your marital status, the colour of your skin, and your religion or caste are all factors that can lead to salvation or destruction.

The author thoroughly examines a number of issues regarding the relationship between sex and religion. Among them: the problem of the permissibility or prohibition of sexual relations outside marriage; the attitude of different religions to allowing priests to have sex, to homosexual sex and sex between representatives of different races, to sexual self-satisfaction, etc. A fascinating study of customs, rituals, and rules, the book will be of interest to anyone interested in culture, religion, and gender and sexuality.