How Buddhist practice relates to human sexuality and sexual relationships. Topics can include sexual practices, heterosexuality, homosexuality and transgender issues.
Questions tagged [sexuality]
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Dealing with Lust
I am wondering about the nature of lust and its remedies. I know Buddhism posits that lust depends on the sense organs, and contact with an object. Thus, I've read it promotes decreasing this contact and guarding the senses.
Yet, I find myself…
user7302
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What do Buddhists do to prevent sexual desires?
Does Buddhism do anything to prevent sexual desires?
Do they do anything to lower sexual desires?
Prevent eating certain foods or something similar?
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Sexual disinterest
Is it possible that Buddhist practice could cause a lack of interest or even repulsion of sex? Lately I have tried to have sex a few times and I felt uninterested and repulsed by it. I was so repulsed that I couldn't even function down there. It…
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Sexual deviance (zoophilia, etc)
If homosexuality is okay because it is never explicitly stated in the canonical texts, then how about zoophilia, or necrophilia? Those aren't explicitly stated in the texts too, so are those 'okay'?
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Three Questions about Sexual Desire
I am wondering a few questions in regard to sexual desire and Buddhism.
Is fantasizing a form of craving and thus worse than sexual activity without it? What are the mental processes involved?
How much does a single orgasm, for example, affect the…
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Is it forbidden in Thai/Buddhist religion for a woman to perform consensual oral sex on someone?
Is it forbidden in Thailand and Buddhist religion for a Thai adult female living in the western world to perform consensual oral sex on someone?
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