2007-05-03 04:51:05 · 24 answers · asked by Sam B 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ask John Wayne Bobbitt, he has the answer.
2007-05-03 04:56:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
1 Cor 7:3-5. The husband should not deprive his wife of sexual intimacy, which is her right as a married woman, nor should the wife deprive her husband. The wife gives authority over her body to her husband, and the husband also gives authority over his body to his wife. So do not deprive each other of sexual relations. The only exception to this rule would be the agreement of both husband and wife to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time, so they can give themselves more completely to prayer. Afterward they should come together again so that Satan won't be able to tempt them because of their lack of self-control.
That's what the bible says about marital sex.
The answer, I think, lies somewhere in the middle. Yes, I do believe that the bible considers it a sin to force yourself on your spouse. Hurting other people for your own lust is just too contrary to Christian teaching to be anything else. The problem lies in that it's just as much a sin to deny your spouse for any reason other than to get closer to god, and then, only through a mutual decision to do so.
So, in marital rape, two sins are committed. 1) by the rapist by forcing his or her spouse to have sex (women can rape men, folks, so don't get all man-bashy here). 2) by the raped by denying the rapist in the first place.
Hosed up logic, true, but it's essentially the reason anti-marital rape laws didn't exist in the US before 1975 (go South Dakota!) and didn't change completely throughout the US until 1993. The House of Lords in the UK criminalized it in 1991. The view, and common law coincidentally, was that it's impossible to rape your spouse because your spouse gave his or her body over to you when you married him or her. Reference: 1 Corinthians 7:3-5.
Interestingly enough, in the highly Catholic Latin America, only a few countries have criminalized spousal rape. There are very few countries where Islam has a strong presence that have criminalized spousal rape.
2007-05-03 05:16:55 · answer #2 · answered by Muffie 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
God does NOT consider forced (non-violent) sex a sin! Although forced sex is not preferable or condoned in the true Spirit of God, no one gets married to refrain from sex, do they? God invented the holy sacraments of marriage. Submission to each other is a prerequisite of marriage, from the vows that are promised, of which God ordained. They should be honored as such. If one does not submit to the other and causes one to seek sex (adultery) outside their marriage, then both have committed a sin!
2007-05-03 05:42:21 · answer #3 · answered by TIAT 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. That goes back to the days where it was taught that sex is naughty and it is ONLY used to create children. Anything outside of that function even between man and wife is sin. That is why throughout the history of the canon that people have argued that the song of songs shouldnt be in the Bible.
God created sex to BE pleasurable has no problem with couples privately engaging in it within the bonds and committment of marriage. Sex helps unite man and wife and break the bonds to our parents.
But what God does NOT approve of is people engaging in sex with animals, same sex, relatives, and adultry.
2007-05-03 05:13:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, unless the force is consensual.
While the OT seems to imply a man's right to treat his wife more or less how he wants to, the NT supports the idea of equivalent justice - don't do it to others unless you are prepared to have it done to yourself.
It is a sin not to follow the law of the land where it does not conflict with god's law, so for the most part what is illegal is also a sin.
2007-05-03 05:00:49 · answer #5 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Does she like to feel forced? I have met women who want to feel like they are so desireable that their man cannot control himself and must force himself upon her. Of course, now we're getting into an area where neither the government or the church have a right to intrude.
2007-05-03 05:44:54 · answer #6 · answered by Moonshine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go ahead, keep doing it, Then your wife will fall in love with an escaped Italian prisoner and tell you she's leaving.
You'll be mad so you'll kill the guy, but your wifes servant will stab you in the throat then make it seem like suicide by shooting your already dead body in the head and running.
Your wife will not say anything at the trial but sit there like a statue. However, she will get a verdict of not guilty even though everyone thinks she did it. This is due to the farmer who saw a MAN doing the work and fleeing.
She will have had a private mortuary built in honor of her love and then kill herself in it.
Uhm, to clarify, this is from the book "Green City in the Sun"
2007-05-03 04:57:49 · answer #7 · answered by David H 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
The bible says that you are not to withhold sex from your partner but in the case of prayer and fasting. I am not even sure how to feel about this subject because I have been a victim (not by my husband) but I know what the Bible has to say and that is good enough for me.
2007-05-03 05:05:22 · answer #8 · answered by princessami 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes. A husband is to respect his wife. In the U.S. it is also a crime. Being married does not make you a woman's master. We do not have slavery here. Your wife can press charges against you and you will go to prison for many years. Unlike the Middle East!!
2007-05-03 04:58:36 · answer #9 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Any sex, wherein either partner's dignity is taken away, is considered a sin by the Catholic Church.
2007-05-03 05:00:49 · answer #10 · answered by lurned1 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Has nothing to do with sin. Forced sex is rape and it's illegal regardless of whether the parties are married or not.
2007-05-03 04:56:07 · answer #11 · answered by Penelope Smith 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋