"The sexual revolution has had many manifestations, but we can now see that modern Americans are determined not only to liberate sex for marriage [and even from gender], but also from procreation."
hell, Jews have been doing *that* from the very beginning!....
sex for reasons of intimacy and pleasure are part of the agreement when the couple gets married... the husband is contractually(sp??) obligated to sexually satisfy the wife....
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketubah: "Traditionally, the language of the ketubah formalises the various requirements by the Torah of a Jewish husband vis à vis his wife (e.g. giving her adequate resources for dress, sexual intercourse), and stipulates the sum to be paid by him in case of divorce, which is 200 Zuz (a Talmudic currency) - generally considered the sum to support oneself financially for a full year."
and they are assumed to have sex while she is pregnant and if one or both partners is unable (for whatever reason) to concieve a child (i.e. if she is on the pill, or if one of them is sterile, etc.)...
granted, according to the halacha a man *is* obligated to reproduce (he is expected to have at lest one boy and one girl)... the woman is not "obligated" at all though.. (the reasoning being pregnancy and childbirth are dangers to a person's life and the woman could never be obligated to endanger her life because of that)....
its all just a little "right-of-center" from perfect.... but still more attractive to me than the uber-Xtian mindset of "sex, except for reproduction, is sin"...
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hell, Jews have been doing *that* from the very beginning!....
sex for reasons of intimacy and pleasure are part of the agreement when the couple gets married... the husband is contractually(sp??) obligated to sexually satisfy the wife....
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketubah:
"Traditionally, the language of the ketubah formalises the various requirements by the Torah of a Jewish husband vis à vis his wife (e.g. giving her adequate resources for dress, sexual intercourse), and stipulates the sum to be paid by him in case of divorce, which is 200 Zuz (a Talmudic currency) - generally considered the sum to support oneself financially for a full year."
and they are assumed to have sex while she is pregnant and if one or both partners is unable (for whatever reason) to concieve a child (i.e. if she is on the pill, or if one of them is sterile, etc.)...
granted, according to the halacha a man *is* obligated to reproduce (he is expected to have at lest one boy and one girl)... the woman is not "obligated" at all though.. (the reasoning being pregnancy and childbirth are dangers to a person's life and the woman could never be obligated to endanger her life because of that)....
its all just a little "right-of-center" from perfect.... but still more attractive to me than the uber-Xtian mindset of "sex, except for reproduction, is sin"...
Jules & Co.