About the book: 1998 / The book is dedicated to studying the origins of negative attitudes towards human sexuality in the Christian world. The emergence of the tradition of asceticism and celibacy, promotion of virginity and opposition laws of nature - this is the range of issues that are addressed in this book. The study is based on contrasting the Old and New Testaments with each other, as two diametrically opposed traditions: joy and rapture in earthly life, asceticism and denial of earthly existence for the sake of eternal life.