Sex

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A gift from God, to whom is due all praise and honor and glory and thanks.

Biblically, abuse of God's gift of sex -- sexual sin -- is often spoken of with the same language as idolatry.

1 Relevant Scriptures (a study guide--WIP)
2 Unmarried Sex
3 Married Sex
4 Singleness
5 The Puritans on Sex
6 On the Net
- 6.1 For the Guys
- 6.2 For the Ladies
7 See Also
8 Books

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Relevant Scriptures (a study guide--WIP)

Genesis 2 -- Naked and unashamed, singing love songs. Worth aspiring to.
Lev ... --
Proverbs 5
Song of Songs -- Right in the middle of your Bible sits an erotic love poem. Who knew?
Matt --
1 Corinthians 7
- Greek/1 Corinthians 7:1-6
1 Timothy 5

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Unmarried Sex

... is called fornication. Don't do it.

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Married Sex

... is a gift from God.

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love[making]. (Proverbs 5:18-19)

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Singleness

... is a gift from God. If you have it, then enjoy it and use it to the glory of God (1 Cor 7:32). If you don't have the gift, don't pretend to -- get married and enjoy a fulfilling sex life, otherwise you're setting yourself up to burn (1 Cor 7:9).

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The Puritans on Sex

The Puritans tend to get a bad rap for being sexually repressive. And when it came to sexual sin, this was true. However, their great care concerning sex followed not from a hatred, distaste, or mistrust of sex, but rather from a lofty esteem for it. We do not use the Tiffany crystal for a chamber pot; likewise, we would do well not to treat sex with the kind of casual disdain that passes as "progressive" or "sexual liberation" today.

One of the best remedies that can be prescribed to married persons (next to an awfull feare of God, and a continuall setting of him before them, wheresoever they are) is, that husband and wife mutually delight each in other, and maintaine a pure and fervent love betwixt themselves, yielding that due benevolence one to another which is warranted and sanctified by God's word, and ordained of God for this particular end. This due benevolence (as the Apostle stileth it) is one of the most proper and essentiall acts of marriage: and necessary for the maine and pincipall ends thereof: as for preservation of chastity in such as have not the gift of continency, for increasing the world with a legitimate brood, and for linking the affections of the married couple more firmly together. These ends of marriage, at least the two former, are made void without this duty be performed. As it is called benevolence because it must be performed with good will and delight, willingly, readily and cheerfully; so it is said to be due because it is a debt which the wife oweth to her husband, and he to her (1 Cor 7:4). (William Gouge, "Of Domesticall Duties", 215-216, quoted in Sex and the Supremacy of Christ -- ye olde spellings preserved)

1 Cor. 7:3-5 ... plainly shows that even the sober use of the marriage-bed is such a mutual debt, that it may not be intermitted long without necessity and consent... Neither desire of gain, nor fear of trouble, nor occasional distastes, nor pretense of religion, should separate those from conjugal converse and cohabitation, (unless with consent, and that but for a time,) whom God hath joined together. (Richard Steele, "Duties of Husband and Wife", 275, quoted in Sex and the Supremacy of Christ)

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