New Study: Religious Jewish Men Make More Attentive Lovers
When it was time for Rabbi Hannannel Ross, 29, to select a research subject for his master’s in psychology at the Hebrew University, he didn’t have to look too far for inspiration. Religious women, he noted, were actively studying and talking about sexuality, helping to bring down barriers and deliver appropriate education and guidance. Religious men, however, enjoyed no such privileges, their sex lives remaining unstudied and never discussed. Taking to that most rabbinic of platforms, Facebook, Ross put out a call for observant men who were willing to speak discretely about their sexuality. Soon, scores of research subjects came rushing in.
“Our social structure declares that men have ‘natural urges,'” Ross told the Israeli press recently, “which not only means that men are just boring that way, almost mechanical, but it also means that if men have urges, these urges must be satisfied.” This, Ross added, “works against men, because we perceive of men as devoid of free will, and just victims of their incontrollable urges.” Even the Talmud, he said, had verses that supported that point of view. But once Ross got talking to his fellow observant gentlemen the picture that emerged was infinitely more complex.
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