Do you think it's a woman's duty to please her husband, and what is your religion?

Answer 1

No, although if the marriage is healthy they should desire to please each other, I'd think.

I'm Wiccan.

Answer 2

This is interesting because if you are referring to sex, I see no other way a husband can get pleased than by his wife. In that sense, a woman is supposed to please her husband. But that doesn't mean if the husband wants sex every day or frequently that the woman has to give in. But if it's been a long time since the couple has had sex, that's bad. We are created to have a sexual longing for each other in marriage, so there is no reason to deprive that desire. You have the capacity and the right to have sex whenever, but the wife has the right to refuse, especially if it's been recent. The husband shouldn't expect sex every night. The husband might like it, but perhaps the woman loses her longing for that person because of the usual expectation that she'll be having sex every day. I mean, hey, if she wants to have sex every day, all the better. But we guys should know it usually doesn't work that way.

Now, if you mean please her husband in general, it's true that wives and husbands should be submissive in most ways to each other. There's no reason that a husband shouldn't strive to make the wife happy and vice versa. However, your question almost insinuates that if I say it's the woman's duty to please her husband, that Christianity is suddenly sexist (I am a Christian). The duty is mutual. The couple is considered as one in God's eyes, so a husband should treat the wife the way he would want to be treated, and vice versa. Since you'll be living together "until death do you part", it's probably a good idea to follow the golden rule, here.

Again, this isn't really a matter of religion. I don't see any other way a husband can be pleased sexually without the wife. And if a husband seeks pleasure (be it sexual or otherwise) outside of marriage, that only leads to trouble. So perhaps I can say that it is a woman's duty to please her husband, but realize that she can't have it any other way. That goes for the husband, too. If they want the marriage to last, they have the duty of pleasing each other. And again, since that includes sex, they better get going (and any type of sex is okay in a marriage, according to the Bible).

Answer 3

I think both partners should want to please each other.

Anyway, I am a Christian, and here are a few things the Bible says about it...

1 Corinthians 7:3-5
"The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife , and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife's body does not belong to her alone, but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone, but also to his wife. Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control."

Ephesians 5:22-33 (and many other passages) talks more about marriage.

Answer 4

It's a woman's duty to take care of her husband

It's a husband's duty to take care of his wife

Answer 5

A woman's duty is to show her husband respect, and man's duty is to love his wife. Christian.

Answer 6

Yes just as it is his duty to love her. God Bless..
I believe in God the Father, His Son Jesus Christ who died on the cross for everybody sin and are now alive sitting at the right hand of God. And the Holy Spirit that was send from God to guide us in all truth until Christ return to judge us all.
Read 1 Corinthians 7. 1 Peter 3.

Answer 7

I think if a husband is happy, a wife's life is much more pleasant. And vice versa. Duty? What is that? Being smart? I understand that.

Answer 8

I think it's each person's goal in life to respect all people irregardless of social status, period

for those more intimate, the respect and love should be even more so, and naturally both should want to show love in different ways without coercion or rules/ dogma making her 'submit' and serve a man, making him serve or submit a woman

Answer 9

This is so 1950's. If a woman feels it's her "duty" to please her husband, then she deserves everything she has coming.
Stand up and be a person. Marry for love and equality.

Answer 10

I believe it is both spouses duty to please, help, comfort, care for and work together with each other.. Neither spouse is more important or subservient to the other, they are partners.. Your wording makes it seem as though the wife should be subservient to the husband and I do not believe that at all.


Atheist, my husband is Agnostic..

Answer 11

They are equally to love one another.
I will say that although women are told to submit in scriptures, that men are also told to submit. It's the allusions of the scriptures.

AS one fine man of the cloth said..
If a married couple treats their spouse as the greater and they themselves the lessor, then both of them are pleasing the other.
And when that happens, they are in harmony. And the first shall be last and the last shall be first. Making themselves treated as first through the other spouse treating them as such. And vice versa.

Catholic.