"Golden Mean in Sexual Matters"

"Let the marriage bed be undefiled." "You men, love your wives like Christ gave Himself for the Church." "...those that have wives as if they had no wives." Literal or physical aspect Intellectual aspect Emotional aspect Spiritual aspect "Your breasts are like grape clusters ... as twins of a roe." Sex is a pleasure. "Love is as strong as death." "You men ... live with your wives with understanding ... giving honor ... that your prayers may not be hindered." Sex is all about communication. "And Isaac ... took Rebecca and she became his wife and he loved her." "And David consoled Bathsheba." "You men ... live with your wives with understanding ... giving honor ... that your prayers may not be hindered." Sex is all about emotion. "He that marries, does well; he that does not marry, does better." "And Joseph did not have communion with his wife till Jesus was born." "It is a good thing not to touch a woman." Continence and abstinence are better. Off-color jokes. Exaggerated prudishness. Living apart together. Sex is only for procreation. Fornication & adultery. Sex and pleasure are evil. Orgies/tantric sex.

To those that overemphasize continence the apostle Paul advises not to withold what is due (the orgasm) from your partner. But he also counsels us not to marry in the first place, if one is able to abstain (for, he says, "It is better to marry than to burn with desire").

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