Great Sex

God invented sex For reproduction For fun As a signpost For covenant glue

Guy (NYTimes): Sex was great for the first year of marriage, then dwindled to nothing. I tried everything to bring it back. After two sexless years I gave up.

G1er: Sex is happening but it is physical more than soulish and intimate. Not bad. But not great.

Another G1er: 20yrs of marriage with sexual ups and downs, mostly ups. Honestly better than ever these days.

“I like to wear pink, fluffy underpants. You should try it.”

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1 Cor 7:2-6 (MSG) The marriage bed must be a place of mutuality - the husband seeking to satisfy his wife, the wife seeking to satisfy her husband. Marriage is not

a place to ‘stand up for your rights.’ Marriage is a decision to serve the other, whether in bed or out.”

1 Thess 4:3-8 It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of your should learn to control his own body in away that is holy and honourable

not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him…for God did not call us to be impure, but to live a

holy life. Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives us his Holy Spirit.

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1 Cor 7 Abstaining from sex is permissible for a period of time if you both agree to it, and if it's for the purposes of prayer and fasting—but only for such times. Then come

back together again. Satan has an ingenious way of tempting us when we least expect it.

NeedToFeelDesired: My hubby and I are in counselling trying to deal with intimacy issues. It saddens me how rejected and undesirable I feel in this important area of my life.

Sex sucked the first couple of years; we were both rookies andpretty selfish. Bad sex led to arguments, which

led to bad sex, leading to more arguing, etc. We never gave up though: kept communicating, working on our

sex life, especially through a season of having children. 10 years later, sex is smokin’…

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1 Pet 3:7 Husbands, be considerate/understanding to your wives and treat them with respect.

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SS 7:1 How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O prince's daughter! Your graceful legs are like jewels, the work of a craftsman's hands.

SS 7:2 Your navel is a rounded goblet that never lacks blended wine.

SS 7:3 Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

SS 7:4 Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools of water.

SS 7:6-8,10 How beautiful you are and how pleasing, O love, with your delights! Your stature is like that of the palm, and your breasts like clusters of fruit. I said, ”I

will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit. The fragrance of your breath like apples…I belong to my lover, and his desire is for me.

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Gen 2:24-25 The man and his wife were both naked and they felt no shame. Now the serpent…”

Ps 34:5 Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame.

Jn 8:10-11 Jesus asked, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” “No one, sir,” she said. “Neither do I condemn you. Go now and leave your life of sin.”