the impact of sexual restraint

I read this from an article, which was certainly thought-provoking:

All this ties in with a discovery Oxford anthropologist J.D. Unwin made as long ago as 1934 in his study, Sex and Culture (Oxford University Press).

Having researched more than 80 cultures past and present on this subject, Unwin discovered that societies, which do not impose some restraint on their sexual behavior, cease to develop significant social energies after only one generation.

Conversely, when social regulations forbid indiscriminate satisfaction of sexual impulses, the emotional conflict is expressed in another way. In other words, civilizations are built upon sacrifices in the gratification of innate desires.

number-crunching

There could be more Christians than  Communists in China, which means they could have the highest number of active Christians in the world!  The place where I work at the moment, the Pew Forum is part of the efforts in trying to find out these numbers exactly, anyway here’s a link to the Economist which talks about this: http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12342509