Wouldn’t that result in a lot of men that don’t really want to be married, getting married just to have sex? Is that acceptable?
I am seventy, by the time I was 23 people thought I was a lost cause, good for nothing simply because I did not already have a wife and at least one child as was considered the norm in those days. I knew more than one young fellow back then who actually told me that he was married to someone only because, “That was the only way I could get in her pants.” By age 23 I had already had more than one young woman propose to me even though they hardly knew me, including one who was twice divorced already at 26 and literally announced to me that, “I am going to marry you”, as if I had nothing to do with the decision, apparently she thought there was no way I could turn her down, she seemed amazed that I did not jump at the chance to be her third husband but I did not marry until two days after my 28th birthday. By then I had been written off as a “confirmed bachelor”, people were stunned to learn that I, “Finally DID marry.”
Reply to Rhema’s comment “Wouldn’t that result in a lot of men that don’t really want to be married, getting married just to have sex? Is that acceptable?”
I dunno how to answer you. Sex is not the main reason to get married. But in the old days when you burned with passion, you had no outlet. I think we would do better to compare the prior way with the new way and see which is better and which is worse.
And Rhema, I think most men would equate the act of sex with expressing love for his wife. Just my two cents on that too.