What is the Christian opinion about bondage, sado-masochism, dressing up in leather or latex etc.
* In the context of a loving marriage...
is it a sin?
The highest value in Christianity is love not hate, not torment, not torture.
Matthew 22:35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him: 36 “Teacher, which is the
great commandment in the Law?” 37 And He said to him, “‘You shall
love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the great and foremost commandment. 39 The second is like it, ‘You shall
love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 Upon these two commandments hang the whole Law and the Prophets.”
It is freedom not bondage.
John 8:
36 Therefore if the Son makes you
free, you shall be free indeed.
Galatians 5:1 It was for
freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.
It opposes unnatural passion and perversion
Romans 1:
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown
it to them. 20 For since the creation of the world
His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,
even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, 21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify
Him as God, nor were thankful, but
became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise,
they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore
God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 For this reason
God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women
exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men,
leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men
committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in
their knowledge,
God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness,
sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness;
they are whisperers, 30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; 32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.
Jude 1:7 just as
Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these
angels indulged in
sexual perversion and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
