Judaism's attitude to Sexual Behaviour

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Sexual Behaviour
- Procreation
  - "It is not good that man should be alone, i will make a help meet for him"
  - "Be fruitful and multiply"
  - Only within marriage
- Pleasure
  - Husband's duty & wife's right
    - Torah specifies number of times she can expect sex
  - Encouraged past child bearing age
- Yetzer Hara
  - Chasidism - challenged in to the passionate worship of God
    - Libidinous thoughts are opporutnities to capture the passion and energy of the libido and redirect it to prayer
- Niddah
  - Ritually impure as losing a potential life
    - Keeps marriage fresh
      - "stolen waters are sweet"
  - Reform dismiss this purpose behind it was to participate in Temple Worship
- Sex is the most likely to lead people away
  - "sex should not involve the exploitation coercion or subjugation of another person"
- Forbidden Sexual Relations
  - Sex before marriage
    - Reform allowed monogomous, comitted relationships
  - ****
  - Incest
    - Lev 18
      - Lot
  - Sexual relations with non-Jews
    - 1 Kings 11 - Solomon
  - Adultery
    - Agunah remarries without a get
  - Homosexual
    - Reform believe they should be allowed the same permission which governs all sexual behaviour
Sex is the most likely to lead people away
- "sex should not involve the exploitation coercion or subjugation of another person"

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