If you are in the UK check out an interesting new documentary series that starts on BBC2 at 9pm, this evening or catch up on IPlayer.
From Pleasure to Sin
Diarmaid MacCulloch explores how Christianity has shaped Western attitudes to sex, gender and sexuality throughout history, beginning by examining how the early Christians transformed intercourse from a biological necessity into a vice and from a pleasure into a sin. The historian explains how Greek ideas of sexual abstinence were adopted by the early Christians, looks at how St Paul, St Jerome and St Augustine developed increasingly negative ideas about sex, and tells the story of the rise of monasticism across the West