God and Sex

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Especially those Hindu gods with multiple arms. Or Cthulhu. That would be like taking tentacle hentai to a whole new level

I really love that you brought this up. And especially love the quoted paragraph. I am a Muslim, and it is custom for married couples to say a prayer right before penetration, we do believe that sex is considered an act of charity among spouses, and ignoring sexual advances of your spouse for no good reason could be considered...well...the opposite of charity!

So I do believe that sexuality is strongly tied to spirituality, and I'd even say that sex is a spiritual act of giving and getting back in return, more than it is a physical one (I am not emotional being a typical aspie, but I am highly spiritual and praying/reflecting on God, life, etc gives me great joy.

My parents were also very frank and to-the-point in teaching and speaking to their children about sex without any embarrassment, I will be doing the same with my future kids as well. Have a nice day

I'm not going to get into the whole homosexuality thing again... But if that's your reasoning for homosexuality being approved of by God, then God also prefers monogamy. Nature favors a 1:1 equilibrium between the sexes. If you create a crisis situation in which there are more of one sex than the other, either one will go to extremes to bring in mates from somewhere else or the predominant sex will die out until the population reaches equilibrium. It's ECONOMICALLY ideal to have one male and several females, but this only works if you cull the unwanted males and leave a single male or select males to mate with sisters/daughters. Last time I checked most developed countries had a thing about incest, and FLDS is lucky they live in a liberal society that gives their "lost boys" a place to go. Otherwise you end up a crusty 80-year-old before you get your first virgin.

Naturally we're "made" to pair up evenly, and you'll note that there are several species that tend to mate for life. Wolves and certain birds among those. Given equilibrium of the sexes and the tendency of some species to mate for life, it would seem monogamy is naturally preferable. I suppose you could argue that despite the equilibrium polygamy is dominant in the animal kingdom with many species having several mates, with both males and females sharing multiple mates. But many of these have multiple births in which a single litter can have multiple fathers. That goes a long way to securing genetic diversity. But with human beings, the norm is that one egg is produced OR two eggs are produced that will most likely be fertilized by a single father. It happens to be easier given societal constraints to raise children in a 1:1 situation whereas if multiple partners are involved measures are usually taken to PREVENT pregnancy--not to mention females in general do not know when they can conceive unlike many animals. Mating for pleasure is rare in the animal kingdom, it seems. So by that logic human beings shouldn't even mate for pleasure but for conception only. And as we all know, this is not what happens with human beings. Or if this the natural order, it looks like certain religious groups in the past were right all along.

This is interesting. Admittedly I don't know as much about Islam as I'd like to, but this is for me a rare insight into some of the more intimate parts of the religion.

I'm Christian, and only just two years ago did I really start studying the Bible. I don't see anything wrong on the surface with what Ragtime is saying, but from a Christian perspective here are my thoughts:

Christians are commanded to glorify God in EVERYTHING they do. Everything includes sex. Therefore I'd advise anyone in a sexual relationship to get married as a matter of respect to your mate. I think one might glorify God in praying before sex. But the Bible also indicates that sex is a private, intimate matter between husband and wife. Temple rites were always to be performed fully clothed, and the law specifically states that the priest MUST wear underwear to keep his private parts from being exposed before the Lord in the tabernacle and the temple. Sex in the temple was strictly forbidden because it resembled too much pagan rites, especially those that involved intercourse with temple prostitutes. So sex in a place of worship, as hot as I think that would be, is out.

With sex being a private, personal matter, what you do with your partner is between you and God. But I am concerned that even this still closely resembles "sex magic." I'd be careful not to allow this to become a sort of ritualistic expression and lose focus on what God wants as opposed to the reasons for sex in the first place.