In my relationships survey (n=57k), i ask
duestion: Do you practice a traditional religion?
tip: Such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc., and not* including stuff like witchcraft.
No
Loosely/culturally
Yes
Devoutly/heavily
I also ask:
"On average, over the last six months, about how often do you and your partner have sex?"
The question is: Among people who report being in relationships 5 years or more, which group will have higher sex frequency: people who said "no" to the religion question, or people who said "Yes" or "Devoutly/heavily"?
Idk exactly the threshold I'd use to say it's 'equal', and I don't feel like figuring out an exact number to give right now. My usual threshold for correlations being worth reporting is r=.12 (tho i might not use this to measure the relationship idk).
I haven't looked at the results yet and don't know the answer myself. I might bet in this market but will stop betting once I look at the results.
I will do basic controls for stuff like age, gender, and whether or not people have kids. If there's any other very basic, obvious stuff to control for I haven't thought of, then I will include that too.
1,000@Aella What is the methodology of getting the survey in front of your survey participants?
Was it a link placed on your social media? Does this imply that most of the participants are English speaking?
Or was it distributed by a surveying service that finds participants for you?
@Quroe I think it's primarily social media, here were the sources for the kink survey (mostly tiktok, twitter, reddit). I assume the relationships survey was similar
Controlling for the number of kids seems like a mistake to me - one of the main effects I would expect to find is that devoutly religious people are more likely to have lots of kids.
I'm not certain if having kids implies more sex (because how else do you get pregnant) or less (because when do parents find time to do it). My experience says it would be less, though.
@TimothyJohnson5c16 My Grandmother was very(!) catholic and once told me "I never had unneccessary intercourse"
More sex? Yes. Good consensual sex? No.
To be clear: there is a very common problem of non-consensual sex in marriages between devoutly religious people. Women in these relationships often believe (as a consequence of their religious beliefs) that they are not permitted to say no if their husbands want to have sex with them.
Therefore, given
C: sex when the woman would naturally consent
NC: sex when the woman would not naturally consent
then
C + NC > C
It's possible that other factors could override this effect, but I don't know what they would be. I'd be interested in hearing some hypotheses.