“Someone’s been reading too much Nathaniel Hawthorne. Right thinking Christians view the marital act to be too important and even sacred to abuse. The opposite of dirty. You cannot read Genesis, the Song of Solomon, or the Gospel of Matthew and get any other idea. The Kingdom of God is like a Wedding Feast.”
Thank you!
I heard an academic (a musician, not a historian) a few years ago proclaim that the Pilgrims and Puritans were all sexually repressed, and that “all the historians agree.” (Was that all the communist historians who make a living distorting true history?)
The truth is that our forbears understood the fallen nature of Man [ooh! patriarchy!], and valued the marital bond. That is fundamentally different from being sexually repressed, or viewing sex as inherently corrupt.
In other words, they viewed humanity generally as corrupt, not just sex specifically, but since sex is uniquely personal and intimate, it is especially vulnerable to disastrous corruption.
The reality is that they were often very earthy: They lived off the land, and bred animals at close quarters (animal husbandry, anyone?). Many of them were more comfortable with sex than many of the supposedly liberated feminists of today. Witness the large size of their families: They were not shy about engaging in sexual intimacy.
Clive Staples Lewis understood the connection between leftism and frigidity.