) psychoanalytic approach envisioned and realized a sexual revolution that changed societal thought

A serendipitous discovery from our previous study spawned this report. Keywords: Freud, religion, sexuality, Victorian England In his definitive historical review of the relationship between religion and sexuality, Runkel (1998) suggests that Judeo-Christian enmity of sexuality and related asceticism contribute to Freudian anxiety via sexual repression, resulting in Manichean dilemmas or "ecclesiogenic neuroses" which manifest a likelihood of problematic sexual behaviors. As neophyte religious/sexual psychologists, we discovered Runkel's (1998) paper while further exploring some intriguing results from our previous experiment on increasing awareness and knowledge relative to possible untoward consequences of premarital sex Most scholars agree that the sexual repression associated with Victorian England (1837 to the early 20th century) was replaced with Freud's (185