Liberalizing of Sexuality and its Impact on Religiosity in the Culture of the 20th–21st centuries

The article deals with the issue of different solutions to the problem of freedom in traditional Christianity and Buddhism, and postmodern culture. The world religions understand freedom as freedom from the flesh, and modern hypersexual culture based on the ideas of Z. Freud and his followers postulates the freedom of the flesh.
The author asserts that liberalization in the sexual sphere, which is characteristic of modern culture, has a significant impact on the religious situation. For example, Catholics have significantly softened their stance on divorce and abortion, and Protestant churches have not only justified same-sex relationships, but also allowed gays and lesbians to be pastors. At the same time, hypersexuality
becomes the basis of the beliefs of pseudo-Christian and tantric sects. Thus, a paradoxical situation arises when sexual freedom is legitimized by a religion that initially tried to restrict it.