sex

[BloodFire]

ermmm i dunno where to ask it but i thought id ask it here. got your attention though LOL im just kidding this is a serious question i want answering!!

anyway the question is.......... why do some fundamentalist Christians and other religious people teach that there is only one way and time for sex

• missionary
• for reproduction

what are your thoughts on people who think this? are they wrong? personally i think the same position to drop til i plop a little dull. LOL

 

[Obsequey]

I say it's a mixture of upbringing and social/church conditioning. To each their own. If people want to have sex one way, the same way for their entire lives, it doesn't bother me. I don't go poking my nose into others' bedrooms, and I'll thank the rest of the world to do the same.

 

[DrkSdBls]

Exactly. Who cares what anyone else has to say about your sex-life. People have they their own views on Sex; Let them worry about their own sex-lives. As long as they keep their Noses out of my Bed.

 

[BloodFire]

yeah i think it annoys more people than anything!
i dnt care how you have sex. i would rather not know as well. LOL lets keep it like that

 

[gengwall]

I'm not sure that the missionary only philosophy even exists anymore. As far as the procreation only philosophy, even the Catholic church has backed off to an extent, recognizing that sex has a unitive component that is just as important. The "quiverful" people might be the only ones who view sex as solely procreative, but I'm not even sure that is true of them. Frankly, there is no biblical support for a procreative only position, and I am not sure anyone takes such a position now.

I wouldn't even label the proponents of the missionary/procreation only stance as being "fundimentalist". I am a fundimentalist, everyone in my wife's family is fundimentalist, and most of my friends are fundimentalist, and none of these people support such an idea. So it is not inherently a fundimentalist philosophy. In fact, I consider it to be much more of a fanatical philosophy. At any rate, those who believe such things as doctrine, if they exist at all, are rare and their arguments are easily defeated.

You may be interested in this thread on contraception from some time back. We discussed the "procreation only" error in some detail (see posts 12, 14, 17, 38, and 61 in particular)

 

[bluemarkus]

maybe the people are scared of it because they have been taught that it is all bad.

christianity does not teach license for sexual promiscuity, but it neither takes the joy out of it. i think that teachings of men and church tradition have done that. but that can be just as wrong as preaching license, because it is a powerful drive and not to everybody is it given to abstain, especially not in times like ours with
sexual stimuli everywhere.