Thou Shalt Get Busy? Religious Leaders Ask Congregants to Have More Sex

By Sally Chew

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When Fellowship Church Rev. Ed Young last month called for members of his evangelical mega-church to have seven days of sex, he said it was to foster intimacy and faithfulness. But I wondered what else the quirky young pastor might turn up—on purpose or not—with his new headline-grabbing campaign.

Having frequent sex is believed to help ward off prostate cancer, heart problems, depression depression, and even outward signs of aging. So even if just a core group of Fellowship’s 20,000 members manage to double their rates of “congregational copulation”—as Young suggested—they might reap some physical benefits too. Read More