Sex and Filipinos

clipped from opinion.inquirer.net In attitudes about sexual relations, there is only a small divide between Catholic and non-Catholic Filipinos, whereas there is a great gulf between Filipinos as a whole and the peoples in Western Christian countries, including Catholic ones. In our country, attitudes about sex are relatively strict by world standards, not because we are mostly Catholic, or even mostly Christian, but because we are all Filipino.

So, does it mean that it is not religion per se, or being Catholic that determines the Filipino's concept of sexuality? It's some kind then of a Filipino mentality that is acquired from the environment, not necessarily having something to do with religious beliefs. That is a side worth another study.