“Historically, religions have always looked upon the sex act as being of the Devil, as vile, unholy, unclean, as a necessary evil to be engaged in for the sake of procreation only. “
Absolute nonsense. Judaism never, ever looked upon sex like this — this only krept into the western Christian church due to so many of the philosophical “fathers” long after the ministry of Christ who had hangups about females (if you catch what I mean) and influenced thinking for years.
It's not the Christian attitude, either.
St. Augustine admittedly had some issues with sexuality. Keep in mind that he lived a lascivious life as a young man, including "shacking up" with a girl and begetting an illegitimate son with her. He rather understandably reacted too strongly in the opposite direction.