The reason is similar to the reason that divorce was problematic. The two become one flesh.
Gen 2:23 Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
Gen 2:24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Co 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
1Co 6:16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh."
1Co 6:17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
1Co 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
1Co 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
1Co 6:20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
There is meant to be a bond with your spouse that you do not have with everyone else. This one flesh experience should not be extended to everyone who turns you on. Don't become one flesh with a prostitute but with your spouse.
There is a bond created when your spouse is the one who gives you pleasure, the one who makes procreation possible, the one who meets your needs, etc. Your spouse is not just the last in a long line of folks who did this. This is of God and He doesn't want you to have that with others.
Moreover, how many marriages have been tainted by "comparisons" so to speak. If you only have sex with your spouse, you don't compare to anything but her, and that is largely a good thing.
In addition, sex is an act which can lead to children. Children are better cared for in the family that God intended. Even preventative means are not 100 percent effective in preventing children by this act.
God designed your spouse to meet your natural needs for sex.
Co 7:2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
1Co 7:3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
1Co 7:4 For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
1Co 7:5 Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
He also enables some to do without sex, according to the Scriptures. If you are called to that, fine. But otherwise taking a spouse is the prescribed solution to your sexual drive, to being ready to raise any children from the sexual act, and to have a bond with your spouse, the one flesh relationship.
Paul advises the unmarried to marry if they burn with passion:
Co 7:8 To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single as I am.
1Co 7:9 But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
It is God's design that your spouse meet those needs. And statistically married people have sex more often than single people, so perhaps God knew what he was doing.
More sex, and after the sex someone who cares about you and stands by you and helps you through difficult times, and shares life together. Much better than serial one night stands and occasional visits to the prostitute.
Thank you - I appreciate your contribution to answering my concern.
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