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walkitoutIf you have any sense, you're skipping these.
For those who, like me, have no sense, here's a little addendum to the griping about nagging at people to have more sex Because It's Good For Them (a bad reason to do damn near anything, if you ask me, but no one did).
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/us/24sex.html
Here, we have a _pastor_ trying to muscle his congregation into having more sex. Well, the married couples within, anyway.
Words fail.
ETA: Oh, maybe they don't. The article concludes with the pastor's wife supposedly trying to get him to wake up to have sex since he skipped a day. Just before that gem was the newlywed couple having trouble with intimacy after hubby fessed to an affair 8 months into the marriage.
I mean _come on_, guys. Don't you think we need some reframing here? Telling people to suck it up and smile so they feel better is bad enough. This is just poisoning a perfectly wonderful activity by turning it into a chore.
For those who, like me, have no sense, here's a little addendum to the griping about nagging at people to have more sex Because It's Good For Them (a bad reason to do damn near anything, if you ask me, but no one did).
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/us/24sex.html
Here, we have a _pastor_ trying to muscle his congregation into having more sex. Well, the married couples within, anyway.
Words fail.
ETA: Oh, maybe they don't. The article concludes with the pastor's wife supposedly trying to get him to wake up to have sex since he skipped a day. Just before that gem was the newlywed couple having trouble with intimacy after hubby fessed to an affair 8 months into the marriage.
I mean _come on_, guys. Don't you think we need some reframing here? Telling people to suck it up and smile so they feel better is bad enough. This is just poisoning a perfectly wonderful activity by turning it into a chore.
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Date: 2008-11-26 02:38 pm (UTC)For a lot of Christian religious 'leaders', isn't that the point? Sex isn't about fun, it's supposed to be about procreation. Making 'love' is not the point of the exercise. If you can make someone feel guilty about doing something, isn't it even better if you can make someone feel guilty for not doing that same thing?
I mean, c'mon woman, get with the 17th-19th centuries, would you?
On a more serious note, I much prefer the general Jewish view on this topic: while having sex on the sabbath is a mitzvah, making love with your spouse, whenever the two of you feel like it or don't, is just a Good Thing.