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To: Claud; Tatze
"So, once you’ve decided you want no more children, your sex life is over? Have fun with that!"

Oooh! We wouldn't want our *sex lives* to be over would we!!! Because it's soooo horrible to be chaste! It's not like Jesus or St. Paul ever lived that way or anything! /sarc

Neither Jesus nor Paul was married, were they?

Sex is an important part of a healthy marriage. In that context, yes. Forced chastity is terrible.

134 posted on 03/10/2008 11:36:25 AM PDT by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: highball
Sex is an important part of a healthy marriage. In that context, yes. Forced chastity is terrible.

Important part *why* though? I agree with you....but why is it important?

Also, it's happened in many times throughout history where husband and wife could not use their privilege anymore. Either someone gets injured physically, like in war, or someone has an attack of mental illness or something.

So now what? What does the healthy husband/wife do? What is more noble? What is more Christ-like? To stand by the person or get a divorce and go elsewhere because "forced chastity is terrible" and "My needs aren't being met"?

I think the way we answer that question says alot about what we think of marriage. Is it indeed a covenant of love, or is it just an arrangement for sex?

153 posted on 03/10/2008 11:46:37 AM PDT by Claud
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