الفهرس 
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Abstract
Religion plays an important role in people’s lives and can impact both physical and mental health. There are potential links between religiosity and health behaviors, particularly sexual risk behaviors.
Religiosity is characteristic of an individual, and sexual interactions are characteristics of pairs. Thus, each individual’s religiosity may be related to the couple’s decisions about the types of sexual involvement within their relationship.
Sexuality is the constitution or life of the individual as related to ‘sex’ or the possession or exercise of sexual functions. Female sexual function encompasses more than just arousal and orgasm; it is informed by multiple domains and other factors. These include desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction and pain, body image, psychological health and sensuality.
The aim of this work was to determine the role of religiosity in the sexuality of women in sample of 135 married women attending the Outpatient clinic in Menoufia University Hospital and Menoufia Teaching Hospital by using a questionnaire titled ”Religiosity and the sexuality of women questionnaire ”.
Our results showed that:
1- Most of participants were wearing Hijab (89.6%) and (5.9%) were wearing Niqab. Regarding the degree of family upbringing most of the participants in group A and B evaluated it as an average commitment but in group C, (27.9%) evaluated it as an average commitment and (72.1%) as an extreme commitment.
2- Regarding the demographic data (age, education level and FGC) of the three studied groups, a statistically significant difference (P-value was < 0.01).
3- Most of the (72.6%) thought that premarital sex education is important and this opinion was more in group B (50.0%) than group A and C. About (46.7%) of the participants had some sexual knowledge before marriage, where the sources of knowledge about sex were mostly from their friends in group A and group C (40.7%, 57.4 respectively) and group B all of them from family (100%). When asked about if their religious background prevented from thinking about sex before marriage more than half of the participants (57.8%) assured that, they were mostly from group A and C (44.1%, 66.2% respectively) Vs (100%) of group B said no.
4- (59.3%) of the participants has not done it before but (50.0%) and (6.8%) of group B and A, respectively said they did it before or after 1 marriage. (83.8%) of participants did not do masturbation as they thought it is “Religiously haram”. More than half of the participants can reach orgasm in > (50%) of the times and incidence is higher for group A and C (74.6% and 67.6%) than group B (0.0%). There was no statistically significant difference between the opinions of the participants about effect of it on sexual life, but there were statistically significant difference between them as regard did you ever masturbate, causes not to masturbate, frequency of reaching orgasm and reaction of not reaching it questions.
(35.6%) of the participants had a frequency of spontaneous desire less than 2-3 times/month. Regarding to reaction if no desire existed at initiation of coitus (48.9%) never do it and tell husband, when asked about the reason (45.2%) said that husband does not give enough time during love play. (37.0%) of the participants had frequency of discomfort or pain during intercourse in less than half the times. 45.2% of the participants had sometimes a positive role in their sexual life. Majority of participants (63.7 %) are satisfied with their sexual lives to a great extent.