Describe the influences of the early founders of the Christian religion on the attitudes of Christian people toward sexuality

What will be an ideal response?

St. Paul and other founders of the religion condemned sexuality in a way found in neither Hebrew nor Greek thought—nor anywhere in the teachings of Jesus. All sex outside of marriage was considered sinful. Chastity was a virtue, and celibacy, or abstaining from sexual intercourse, was a sign of holiness (Bergmann, 1987). The result was that the average Christian associated the pleasure of sexuality with guilt (stark, 1996). Thomas Aquinas's strong condemnation of sexuality—and especially homosexuality, which he called the worst of all sexual sins—set the tone for Christian attitudes toward sexuality for many centuries.