Churchgoing couples have more sex, greater sexual satisfaction, new report finds
October 7, 2026
Husbands and wives who attend church regularly, pray often and embrace their faith’s classic teachings, including the belief that marriage is a life commitment, have more and better sex than their secular peers, a new report from The Institute for Family Studies has found.
In its report, The Devout Difference: Religion, Marital Quality, and Sex Among Americans, IFS researchers found that while secular couples are showing symptoms of a documented global trend characterized by a significant decline in the frequency of sexual activity among adults over the last few decades known as the "sex recession," churchgoing Christian couples have largely been resilient against it.
