1. Sex is MEANT to be enjoyed. (Which is precisely WHY it is made to be so enjoyable in the first place. It's supposed to be enjoyable.)
2. Sex is meant to be the reward at the CULMINATION OF A RELATIONSHIP. Not at the start of one, where, once experienced, everything is likely to be downhill from there. We are first supposed to enjoy each other's company, get to know the person first. Hold hands. Learn to enjoy that. Then hugging, other stuff, frolicking in the fields, etc. If you begin with the culmination, the hand-holding and frolicking can't be as interesting, because they don't lead to the, eh, uh...culmination part. ;)
Totally agree. It is such a distortion, purposeful or otherwise of a healthy Biblical-based view of Sex. God created it to bond a man and wife together, for procreation as well as committment and intimacy.
It’s why Hebrews states “The Bed in Marriage is undefiled” - i.e., between a man and wife - with love and respect driving it, have at it.
It’s why Paul writes about husbands and wives not owning their own bodies but they own (read share) the others’ - and NOT to use Sex as a weapon or punishment. Why he further states to NOT deny each other “Except for fasting and prayer, lest you become tempted”. So God knows full well how He made us - happy full sex life in marriage is great to prevent adultery.
And finally, Anyone ever sit down and read Song of Solomon?? A very passionate and erotic (in moral way) book. It’s explicit in the Godly way - between man and wife. God put that in there for us to know full well how to feel about our mate.
I remember several years back where a survey was done and they found that highly religious people - married Christian couples, had the highest percentage of a satisfied sexual life in their marriage - confounded the pollsters - (and probably Madonna - typical idiot who thinks we hate Sex)
Frolicking in the fields? What if you don’t have access to a field? That’s gotta be inequality, of some kind, or something, I think.