Is there a causal connection between repressive sexual morality and antisocial behavior? Wilhelm Reich believed that certain forms of deviant behavior result mostly or in part from the repressive sexual morality of a society (Reich, 1930). Reich believes that the majority of antisocial impulses are caused by the repression and dissatisfaction of basic sexual needs from childhood onwards.

In Bronisław Malinowski's The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia (1929), Reich finds evidence for a connection between a sex-positive morality and the reduction of deviant behavior:


  Children in the Trobriand Islands know no sex repression and no sexual
  secrecy. Their sex life is allowed to develop naturally, freely, and
  unhampered through every stage of life, with full satisfaction. The
  children engage freely in the sexual activities which correspond to
  their age. Nonetheless, or rather just for this reason, the society of
  the Trobrianders knew, in the third decade of our century, no sexual
  perversions, no functional psychoses, no psychoneuroses, no sex
  murder; they have no word for theft; homosexuality and masturbation,
  to them, mean nothing but an unnatural and imperfect means of sexual
  gratification, a sing of a disturbed capacity to reach normal
  satisfaction. To the children of the Trobrianders, the strict,
  obsessional training for excremental control which undermines the
  civilization of the white race is unknown. The Trobrianders,
  therefore, are spontaneously clean, orderly, social without
  compulsion, intelligent, and industrious. The socially accepted form
  of sexual life is spontaneous monogamy without compulsion, a
  relationship which can be dissolved without difficulities; thus, there
  is no promiscuity. (Reich, 1942; italics in the original)


Reich's views have long since been shown to be naively optimistic, but what I am interested in is not a refutation of his theory, but recent research in the matter:

What do current empirical psychology and cognitive sciences say to a hypothesised connection between unrepressed sexuality and the absence of anti-social deviant behavior?



Sources:


Reich, W. (1930). Die Sexualität im Kulturkampf. Vienna: Münsterverlag. [Translated as Reich, W. (1945) The Sexual Revolution. Orgone Institute Press.]
Reich, W. (1942). The Function of the Orgasm. Orgone Institute Press.
Alfred Kinsey's studies show a noteworthy occurrence of bisexual/homosexual behavior and multiple partners in the population, despite the fixture of heterosexual monogamy in our culture. EDIT: This first statement is intended to demonstrate that non-heterosexual behavior does naturally occur in the population. I am rewriting the rest to be much less ambiguous.

James A. Haught wrote that Western religion has always been a haven for the sexually repressed. One could argue strongly against sexual repression in light of the Catholic church abuse scandals. The next logical step is that sexual repression creates pathology, and thus anti-social behavior.