Qom University of Medical Sciences Journal

Venereal diseases are so prominent that they are considered the most important skin diseases for they are dangerous and infectious.

Sexual perversions in spite of creating socio-cultural and family problems are considered among people’s greatest medical problems today. But in Islamic societies, the prayer as a life savior has prevented man from sexual perversion for centuries.

Islamic rules especially the prayer warn the believers against prostitution automatically and perhaps unconsciously. A brief comparison between the statistics about these diseases in west with those in Muslim world will prove this claim. It can be argued that changes occurring in nervous transmitters of sexual stimulus resulting from five prayers can lead to a control of lust.