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Abrahamic religions sanction monogamous and committed heterosexual relationships within marriage. Judaism views sex and reproduction as the holiest of acts one can do, the act through which one can imitate God, the Creator. Islam views sex within marriage as something pleasurable, even a spiritual activity and a duty. Christianity views sex in marriage as holy. It affirms that everything God created is good, that material things are not evil.

Hinduism has varied views about sexuality but Hindu society perceive both pre-marital and extramarital sex to be immoral and shameful. Buddhist ethics, in its most common formulation, say that one should neither be attached to nor crave sensual pleasure. Asian societies shaped by Buddhist traditions takes a strong ethical stand on sexual behavior. In the Bahá'í Faith, sexual relationships are permitted only between a husband and wife.

Neopagan religions tend to be positive about sexuality, and are almost unanimous in their acceptance of same-sex relationships as equal to heterosexual ones. Unitarian Universalists have advocated for many decades for same-sex marriage.

Polish philosopher Karol Woytyla, developed a philosophical understanding of love and sexuality which he further discussed as Pope John Paul II in his Theology of the Body. He taught that human beings were created by God who is love with a purpose: to be loving persons who freely choose to love, to give themselves as persons who express their self-giving through their bodies. Thus, sexual intercourse between husband and wife is a symbol of their total mutual self-donation, and further fosters, strengthens and enriches it not just for the present but also for the future. For John Paul II, "The body, and it alone, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and divine." He says there is no other more perfect image of the unity and communion of God in mutual love than the sexual act of a married couple, whereby they give themselves in a total way--exclusively to one another, and up to end of their lives, and in a fruitfully generous way by participating in the creation of new human beings. Through this perspective, he understands the immorality of extra marital sex. It falsifies the language of the body, a language of total love worthy of persons, by using the body for selfish ends, thus treating persons as things and objects, rather than dealing with embodied persons with the reverence and love they deserve. John Paul II stresses that there is great beauty in sexual love when done within the human values of total commitment and and self-giving. For him, this sexual love is a form of worship, an experience of the sacred.