>>>>If nothing else, by declaring it 'sin' religion sure made sex lot more exciting then it would have been!
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>>>you are telling me I could have more exitement if I were more religious ? Now that is an arguement not delegating to afterlife...
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>>C'mon Thomas! :))
>>Joke was referring to church effectively 'spicing it up' for people by preaching that sex is a 'sin' and thus giving it appeal of forbidden fruit.
>>(Something like what prohibition did to alcohol consumption back in 30ies)
>>I am sure everybody around here is thrilled that sexual revolution took place back in late 60ies, but imagine if 1968 happened few centuries back;
>>Nowadays, You would be having it once a month even with a mistress! :))
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>Sex is not a sin. The Lord commanded, "Be fruitful and multiply." Sex outside of lawful marriage is a sin. Fornication is sin. Unnatural sex is sin.

Again - I'm not going to argue the religious aspect of this - but dude it's 2013 and this is planet Earth we're on. Frankly I would consider it foolish for anyone to get married without having sex first. A while back a read a great article (I think on salon.com) written by a women who made the mistake of getting married prior to having sex with her husband. What it boils down to, in a nutshell, its you end up getting married to someone you barely even know....or at least barely know in some regards. Eventually the marriage fell apart...and it didn't fall apart because of a sex problem - it was everything else associated with the problems you get when you decide to do something as dumb as make a life long commitment to a mate you've never had sex with. It was quite a long article and quite informative. The woman did eventually get remarried (without making same mistake) and that marriage is working out much better for her. This business where you try to tell people that any kind of sex outside of marriage is wrong along with whatever you've determined is "unnatural sex" is probably some of the worst life-advice you could possibly give to someone in this day and age. It's almost as shameful as expecting a priest or nun who (for the most part anyway) have zero experience in the field of sex to be a couples therapist on the subject.


>Why? It is the earthly example of the godly, eternal relationship between God and man. There is a movie based off a book in the Bible (Hosea) called "Amazing Love". Is on Netflix. It tells of a prophet named Hosea who was told by God to marry a woman named Gomer, one who would not be faithful to him. Yet because he loved her so much, in the end he bought her back for everything he had. Fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley.
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>Is a tremendous love story conveying in understandable terms God's great love for His most awesome creation, and the continuously unfaithful bride of Christ: man.