THE SIN OF SEX PLEASURE
The Bible never countenances the new Christian invention that sex is holy and
good. The Bible and Christian tradition propound prejudice against sexuality and
against women.
The insistence the Bible makes on what is natural implies that it wrong to have
a fetish. But to cut a long argument short, if fetishes are wrong so is sexual
pleasure. The God of Moses says a man must not wear an article that is proper to
a woman. It says nothing about a man disguising as a woman. It is forbidding the
fetish of dressing in women’s clothing. By deduction then, it is a sin for a man
to be only turned on by the feel of silk or rubber though these are far from
transvestitism. Anything but penetration in the missionary position must be a sin
for anything else is a fetish of sorts. The fact that God failed to condemn many
things that were more harmful indicates that God regards fetishes as very
seriously sinful indeed. The religion of Moses and Jesus wants to stop sexual
variety. This will have the effect of breaking up relationships and making many
give up on sex. It seeks to dictate to people what they can and cannot do in
bed. The Catholic Church has rigid views on sex which means that a man has to
tell the priest in confession if he kissed a woman’s belly or her nipple for he
has to tell how serious the sin was. He is persecuted by being forced to make a
pornographic confession.
The Bible says that the main reason sex outside marriage is wrong is because of
the damage it does to the human personality and is not the risk of disease or
pregnancy (page 93, Free to Do Right). In plain English, the Bible means that
this sex makes you more selfish. It is hard to see how it could avoid saying the
same thing about sex within marriage for it can be selfish too and often is for
people don’t stay in love forever. But nevertheless, the Bible is trying to
reinforce the neurosis of altruism. Millions say pre-marital sex made them nicer
people so what business has the God of the Bible and his Christians calling them
liars?
The Catholic Church teaches that all wilful sexual pleasure that you fully
consent to will result in eternal damnation in the torments of Hell. This is
extreme cruelty. So a second of wilful masturbation will land you in Hell and
saying something that hurts somebody’s feelings will not. So hurting is better
than having fun. The Catholic Church is bigoted and children should not be
exposed to a cult that believes in damaging them. The guilt about sex will wreck
their marriages because when you are told for years that any sexual activity
outside marriage including masturbation is seriously bad that it becomes
impossible to adjust to it in marriage for a long long time. The guilt will
still happen. Christianity does its best to wreck the most important years of
marriage, the first few.
The doctrine that sexual activity outside marriage denies the value of the human
body and that the body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and that is why it is
sinful is a trick that makes hatred of sexuality look like an awe-inspired
respect for it. Everybody who has felt invigorated and respected and made happy
by sex outside the boundaries of the Church knows that it is a deception. But
the Church advocates narrowness for we are not even to consider what they say
for Jesus doesn’t err and that’s that. It is really dogma that is valued.
Proof that the Church hides disdain of sexuality in the guise of treating sex
with reverence is as follows:
A couple who believe that sex under certain restrictions outside marriage is not
wrong and who avoid any harm happening and who love one another more than a
married couple who are sexually active are condemned. It’s all about rules not
love.
If sex is to be so respected that you can’t arouse
anybody you are not married to then you should try to look plain and not
sexually appealing. What kind of respect for the body involves hiding it and
trying to be a non-head-turner?
If engaging in sexual activity that is not allowed means
you are denying the value of your own body then that is one of the worst sins
possible because unlike other sins it attacks the value of your body and your
being. The sin of suicide would be a close relation to this sin. But why sexual
sin? Why is it not a sin to turn the other cheek to an enemy and let them
degrade you? Why is it not a sin to have your baby baptised as if he or she were
an object to be possessed and brainwashed by the Church?
Is it not sick to accuse a couple who love each other and
who would marry if they could like a gay couple or a couple one of whom was
married before and divorced of a sin as bad as suicide, which like forbidden sex
also leads to everlasting damnation, if they have sexual relations?
Genesis may say that God made Eve as a companion for Adam but that is nothing
like saying that sex is for man and woman to feel complete and fulfilled and
loved. That can be done without sex and the Bible wants it like that for it says
we should be God-centred and find all our joy in him alone. That leaves sex just
primarily being for babies or perhaps even only for babies. Rape seems to be
justified in God’s eyes if it leads to a baby.
The Law of Moses decreed that sex was unclean or dirty so the man and woman had
to wash and be unclean until evening (Leviticus 15). God said that to Moses and
Aaron. Christians would say that this law is only about hygiene not about saying
that sex is disgusting. But then it would say that they should have washed
before having sex. And why be dirty until evening unless the law was not about
hygiene but about cleanness in the sight of God. Sex was dirty to God because
God did not like people doing it - it was a necessary evil. God wants us to be
prudes.
The Song of Solomon is full of erotic delights but it is not said that God
approves of its attitude. God could have inspired it like he inspired the
vicious psalms without approving of the malice in them.
It is thought that when Revelation says that the 144,000 saints “have not
defiled themselves by relations with women” for they are virgins (14:4) that sex
is being condemned. But a person who believes that sex is sacred could say that
such and such a person is chaste and is not defiled by men or women for she or
he is a virgin without implying that virginity is the only acceptable route. But
nevertheless, since it was only virgins who were allowed into this group it
indicates for sure that the Lord prefers virginity over being sexually active.
The Christian God said through Paul that whoever gets married does well but he
who stays single does better (1 Corinthians 7). He said that a person with
strong lusts should get married to avoid sexual sin and that a man and his wife
should not refrain from sex too long in case it results in adultery – he is
careful to state that this is only a suggestion not a command so he would prefer
if they gave it up altogether if they could control themselves. None of this
says that sex is sacred. It is grudging permission for it suggest that it is
sinful. It is made a necessary evil – that is, it is only sinful when it does
not have to be indulged in and though it is bad it is not sinful when the
husband and wife cannot control themselves. When Paul says that it is good to
marry he does not have the sexual side to it in mind. His dislike of sexual
activity shows that he did not have it in mind. When Paul wrote that the father
who gives his daughter in marriage does well and that the father “who does not
give [her] in marriage does better,” he pronounced celibacy superior to
marriage. This was strange for marriage was terrible in those days especially
for women and Christianity likes to see people suffer. But Paul certainly
commanded fidelity and babies in marriage – which is not the same as commanding
sex for he saw it as something that should just happen thanks to natural urges
and not be planned - so it was the sex pleasure that he despised. Paul felt that
marriage distracted people from God, which it does more easily when it is a
sexually happy marriage. Many would say that Christianity is just a minority of
clergy trying to use and manipulate everybody who does not know any better when
you see the inconsistency of the Church encouraging marriage while the
scriptures do not. Radio Replies 3 defended the Catholic doctrine that though
marriage is holy celibacy is best and is for those who are called to a greater
holiness than marriage (Question 1171).
Jesus said that the motive for all our actions must only be the love of God,
they must be sacrifices for God. So instead of husbands and wives really loving
one another they must use one another to please God. Jesus turned sex into
something cold and clinical. Sex is no better than rape when not done out of
real respect. It would be a sin to enjoy being exploited so sexual pleasure
would be sinful.
Jesus forbade sexual desire and it was to be tolerated in marriage.
Jesus said that whoever looked at a woman lustfully commits adultery with her
(Matthew 5:28) and adultery deserves a cruel death (Deuteronomy 22:21 – this
commands the execution by stoning of a woman who was found to not be a virgin on
the wedding night so you can imagine what she would deserve if she committed
adultery after the wedding!) and eternal torment (Galatians 519-21). He meant
any woman by woman for if he meant somebody else’s wife he would have said. He
meant that if you allow this feeling of lust or wilful sexual desire to occur in
your bosom then the pleasure is what matters to you mostly or partly or
entirely. It would be the same if the woman is married hence it is adultery in
the heart even if she is not married. You have the heart of an adulterer.
Jesus said he didn’t come to do away with the nasty and harsh Jewish Law given
by Moses which sought for adulterous people to be put to death but to interpret
it correctly and to toughen it up (Matthew 5:17-20).
The fact that religion is so strict and hung-up about sex and it is not in other
things proves that sex must be dirty if it should do that. Jesus for instance
declared sex outside marriage to be always wrong and unloving but he did not do
the same with walking into death like he did. This implies that illicit sex is
worse than suicide or pulling your death upon yourself. A religion that
denigrates sex denigrates people in doing so. I would not like to go to it for
any kind of advice.
We are better off without any religion like Catholicism that teaches that it is
better to commit one act of murder than three acts of sex outside marriage. It
argues that with the murder you kill the grace of God in your soul the once
which is better than doing it three times. Also with murder you kill your own
soul but by having the sex you kill somebody else’s as well. We are better off
without a religion that says it is better for a man to literally go insane with
uncontrollable lust and rape a woman than for them to freely go to bed together.
With the first, the couple are not sinners and with the second they are. It will
also hold that it is better for parents who will instruct their child to have
pre-marital sex to have no child at all. It will secretly wish that God had made
them sterile or that the child had been miscarried. The Church says this for it
holds with the Bible that it is better for the likes of Sodom and Gomorrah to be
destroyed by agonising fire from Heaven (Genesis 18, 19) than for the
inhabitants to have gay sex. This is fanaticism.
Christians argue that God made sex fun to make sure we do it to reproduce the
race. We do lots of boring things so sex could still have been made
uninteresting and the race would be increased. It would be more godly if it were
for then it would be closer to a sacrifice. Some say that it is hard to put the
other person’s pleasure before your own so sex has been made pleasurable for it
is meant to be a sacrifice in the sense of one person giving another pleasure
and forgetting their own. Then it wouldn’t be a sin for the woman to want the
man just to please her and the man to want the woman just to please him. One can
only make the sacrifice by not letting the other sacrifice for them which would
be sinful if love is sacrifice. Perhaps it isn’t sinful. The person getting the
pleasure has to wish that she or he were not getting it. They couple have to use
the missionary position only which is the best for expressing the Bible doctrine
that the woman is the man’s servant and the Church likes the position for it
increases the chance of having a child.
If sex were just for babies then the penis would only be able to gain pleasure
from being inside a vagina and as for the woman there would be no need for her
to have pleasure. The idea that sex is just for babies implies that women should
not enjoy sex or that their pleasure is unimportant. Only the man’s orgasm is
important. Sex is naturally about togetherness and pleasure which is one reason
why homosexuality is natural. The genital parts are there only if you want to
and should have a baby. Since what is wrong is unnatural it follows that a man
and woman having sex though they know any baby that results will die of a
terrible disease is unnatural no matter who says it is natural.
It could be that sex is made pleasurable so that the pleasure will be renounced.
Drink has the power to make you really happy and drunk but you are meant to
renounce that delight.