Kosher Sex by Shmuel Boteach

Author:Shmuel Boteach,
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co

Desensitisation to violence.

When people partake of activities that are severely injurious to the human body, and call it a pleasure, they forfeit an ability to distinguish between that which is wholesome and good, and that which is agonising and hurtful. Violence, even of the self-inflicted variety, should never be dignified no matter what label it carries. The historical record of Rome is filled with lurid details of orgiastic excess and public displays of bestiality that accompanied its Empire before its fall.

As a Rabbi who hails from a religious tradition that has always glorified the sexual act between married adults, I am not a sexual prude. It is in the spirit of a profound respect for the loving bonds that sex can foster between two adults that these lines are written. But what two people do in the privacy of their bedroom is, of course, society’s business if it leads to violence or turpitude, either directly, or indirectly. Even what a child watches on TV in the privacy of his own bedroom has a direct impact on society. This was the excellent point that Frances Lawrence made in her much-applauded manifesto after her headmaster husband was stabbed to death by one of the pupils in his school. Society as a whole must cultivate sex as an intimate and loving experience, rather than as a means by which two people use each other for experimentation, or even just plain pleasure.

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