Sexual Urges, Society, and Religion As Society became more pre-occupied with religion, the primal sexual urges of genetics were put aside to the viewing eye of society and placed behind the protective door of the bedroom. Sex was a great societal secret that was to produce the next generation and not the pleasure of those partaking. With Puritan and Pilgrim roots, America has developed into a conservative sexual culture with a fetish based underground. The literal interpretation of the Bible by the Puritans and the Pilgrims left no room for sexual discussion until the 19th century when Darwin and Freud demystified Go