Poor Joseph and Mary!! You're right, I don't think God would have condemned Mary and Joseph to a life without sexual pleasure just because she was chosen to give birth to the Son of God. What type of earthly father would that have made Joseph? Talk about "flustrated." ;)
BTW, sorry to whomever for harping on the son-of-Joseph-not-Jesus" misprint.
It has been proven beyond a doubt that Homer did NOT write the Iliad or the Odyssey. These epics were written by another man with the same name...