[Elsie]

There was a thread some time back about a Catholic couple, who agreed to live in a platonic, sexless marriage, and they were championed for it.

There is a cult (maybe that word is a bit strong) that embraces the idea of a Jewish couple. One that lived in a platonic, sexless marriage; claiming that is such a holy and ideal state to be in.

[Mrs. Don-o]

With all due respect, there are reasons to abstain from sex in marriage.

Some are rare (e.g. inability to achieve normal intercourse), some are rarer (sickness/hospitalization of one or both spouses) and one is so rare as to be singular (your wife is God's baby-mama.)

[metmom]

There is a cult (maybe that word is a bit strong) that embraces the idea of a Jewish couple. One that lived in a platonic, sexless marriage; claiming that is such a holy and ideal state to be in.

Which defeats the whole point of marriage at all.

Why even get married then?

And then people wonder where others get the idea that their organization thinks sex is bad and sinful and dirty after holding up sexless marriage and continual virginity as the ideal.