Why is it "sexually immoral" to have sex when you are on your cycle?

Question

I saw something online about someone saying it was sexually immoral to have sex while you are on your cycle. Why is it bad and what do they mean by "cycle?"

Answer 1

Because it is dangerous to other drivers.

Answer 2

I wasn't going to bother responding, but I got such a kick out of Sansfear's reply.

Relligion is hard enough without trying to explain "someone saying." If I remember correctly, there were some admonitions in the Torah (first books of the Old Testament) to avoid women when they were having their period (i.e., on cycle?). I think it was given to the Jews as another method (i.e., practices including circumcision) of maintainng sanitary conditions, but also some confused perception of cleanliness. I don't think very many people, Christians included, who think of sex at "that time of the month" as being immoral.

Answer 3

I don't know if you can honestly back that immoral reasoning up from the Bible, for having sex in this condition

BUT,

It may not be sanitary. Of course if you use protection, and do not mind washing the sheets and clothes a lot, and the two of you have to do it, then I can not really say that it is that unsanitary.

Answer 4

The first part of Nandina's answer was correct. However, there is a spiritual aspect to this that is overlooked. By maintaining physical 'separateness' for 10- 14 days (days of menstruation plus seven 'clean'/ blood-free days afterward) of each month, a couple tends to be more appreciative of each other the rest of the month. Additionally, by waiting seven days following the cessation of blood flow, intercourse is more likely to take place during female ovulation.
*This law only applies to Jewish couples, though.*

Answer 5

As far as I know, the only sexually immoral things to do are:

rape
bestiality
sex with a child
sex with a semi-conscious or unconscious person
necrophilia

Answer 6

you're complicated biology with social/cultural customs. The suggestion that men have a extra robust intercourse force relies on the thought for early human beings, the dominant men had extra sexual companions, as a consequence extra progeny and as a consequence, passing down the genetics for a extra robust intercourse force. interior the animal worldwide, it is commonplace for the male of the species to objective and impregnate as many women as a probability, as a consequence passing on their genes. there is a few good judgment to the thought the main efficient men are maximum useful at this attitude. cutting-facet human men are not interior the corporation of attempting to unfold their seed everywhere (although i assume some are indiscriminate in this regard.) So the theory is going that although the sturdy intercourse force is genetically programmed, our modern-day societies and cultures tend to no longer help men having dissimilar babies with dissimilar companions. So men have intercourse for the excitement, no longer for having babies. the boys on your examples are no longer questioning of coming up little ones. they are questioning of having intercourse. there could be a disconnect between the two, even though it isn't the making little ones section that drives the questioning, even though it could have been the making little ones section that prompted the genetic push for a severe intercourse force. i think of it makes suitable experience in case you purchase into the evolutionary attitude on human behaviour. So, no, i do no longer discover it ridiculous.

Answer 7

cycle = woman's menstrual period.

Not unless you're also not married! lol It's a little messy, but not immoral. :-) They may have gotten that from reading the Old Testament. It was considered ceremonially unclean, not immoral.

Answer 8

That's sex during your period.

The touching of blood was considered ceremonially unclean.

So having sex with a woman during her period means you would be touching blood - which is ceremonially unclean.

So actually, in Judaism, a woman was considered ceromonially unclean during her period. She was sent off into the wilderness until she was clean - not on her period - and washed herself seven times or something like that.

So I could say something funny right about now but I won't out of respect for women.

Answer 9

i thought the word "cycle" indicated something that never stopped or started - a continuous process, although i suppose it could be a vague reference to a specific part of that proces..

so does that mean it's ALWAYs sexually immoral to have sex? if so, how is anyone ever meant to procreate? hmm...

Answer 10

A woman who is menstruating is considered "unclean" in Mosaic laws (Leviticus, not sure if it's mentioned elsewhere), and sex with a woman who is on her period is considered "unclean" as well.

Why such a natural part of a woman's physiology should be "bad" is still beyond me, but the whole "we should be ashamed of our dirty, sinful bodies" mentality doesn't makes sense to me, either.

Answer 11

My understanding is that it comes fro mt the Jewish tradition, when a woman is in her menses, no one is to touch her until after 7 days from the last day of her period, then she was to be cleansed in the tub..