I am really intrigued by your argument in this post. I know the focus was not on what marriage is, apart from sex, per se. But I am curious what you would say a marriage is? In the opening you say “a sexual relationship” is all it is.
But later in it sounds as if you’d like a husband and wife’s attitude toward sex to be in balance with the rest of what comprises their relationship. At the same time, you say that married sex is significant in that it’s the only real thing. Apart from the spiritual aspects of reflecting truth, what would you say marriage is?
It’s just feels pretty ambiguous to me if you say we are all “sexual beings” and therefore have a sexual relationship. It doesn’t seem to add more information than saying we are all human and therefore have human relationships.
If we rethink how we talk about gender and sex, from a Christian understanding of our relationships with one another, how will we define marriage as a way of properly living into our sexual state of being, as well as what it means to be a sexual being apart from the marriage relationship?
I am really intrigued by your argument in this post. I know the focus was not on what marriage is, apart from sex, per se. But I am curious what you would say a marriage is? In the opening you say “a sexual relationship” is all it is.
But later in it sounds as if you’d like a husband and wife’s attitude toward sex to be in balance with the rest of what comprises their relationship. At the same time, you say that married sex is significant in that it’s the only real thing. Apart from the spiritual aspects of reflecting truth, what would you say marriage is?
Thanks for reading!
The idea is for you to redefine what "sexual relationship" means.
It’s just feels pretty ambiguous to me if you say we are all “sexual beings” and therefore have a sexual relationship. It doesn’t seem to add more information than saying we are all human and therefore have human relationships.
If we rethink how we talk about gender and sex, from a Christian understanding of our relationships with one another, how will we define marriage as a way of properly living into our sexual state of being, as well as what it means to be a sexual being apart from the marriage relationship?
As I put it in the title, this is a beginning. I leave it to you to assemble some of the pieces.
I’ll look forward to reading more if you expand the topic.