Heavenly Sex

Heavenly Sex
Author: Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1479805602

Celebrated sex expert and bestselling author Dr. Ruth Westheimer bridges the gap between sex and religion in this provocative exploration of intimacy in the Jewish faith In this light-hearted, lively tour of Jewish sexuality, Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer and Jonathan Mark team up to reveal how the Jewish tradition is much more progressive than popular wisdom might lead one to believe. Applying Dr. Ruth’s acclaimed brand of couples therapy to such Biblical relationships as Abraham and Sarah, and Joseph and Potiphar’s wife, the authors enlist Biblical lore to explore such topics as surrogacy, incest, and arranged marriages. They offer a clearer understanding of the intertwining relationships between sexuality and spirituality through incisive investigations of the Song of Songs, Ruth, Proverbs, Psalms, and some of the bawdier tales of the Prophets. One chapter provides a provocative new perspective on the Sabbath as a weekly revival, highlighting not only its spiritual nature, but also its marital and sexual aspects. Focusing specifically on Orthodox forms of Judaism and offering Dr. Ruth's singular interpretations, the book answers such questions as: What night of the week is best for making love? How often should couples have sex? Can traditional Jewish notions of sex and sexuality be reconciled with contemporary beliefs? What roles can and do dreams and fantasy play? In Heavenly Sex, America's favorite sex therapist takes readers on a frank and fascinating journey to the heart of Jewish sexuality as she fits twenty-first century sexual mores into an ancient—and lusty—spiritual tradition.

Heavenly Sex

Heavenly Sex
Author: Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1479806102

Celebrated sex expert and bestselling author Dr. Ruth Westheimer bridges the gap between sex and religion in this provocative exploration of intimacy in the Jewish faith In this light-hearted, lively tour of Jewish sexuality, Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer and Jonathan Mark team up to reveal how the Jewish tradition is much more progressive than popular wisdom might lead one to believe. Applying Dr. Ruth’s acclaimed brand of couples therapy to such Biblical relationships as Abraham and Sarah, and Joseph and Potiphar’s wife, the authors enlist Biblical lore to explore such topics as surrogacy, incest, and arranged marriages. They offer a clearer understanding of the intertwining relationships between sexuality and spirituality through incisive investigations of the Song of Songs, Ruth, Proverbs, Psalms, and some of the bawdier tales of the Prophets. One chapter provides a provocative new perspective on the Sabbath as a weekly revival, highlighting not only its spiritual nature, but also its marital and sexual aspects. Focusing specifically on Orthodox forms of Judaism and offering Dr. Ruth's singular interpretations, the book answers such questions as: What night of the week is best for making love? How often should couples have sex? Can traditional Jewish notions of sex and sexuality be reconciled with contemporary beliefs? What roles can and do dreams and fantasy play? In Heavenly Sex, America's favorite sex therapist takes readers on a frank and fascinating journey to the heart of Jewish sexuality as she fits twenty-first century sexual mores into an ancient—and lusty—spiritual tradition.

Sex on Earth as It Is in Heaven

Sex on Earth as It Is in Heaven
Author: Patricia Beattie Jung
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2016-12-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1438463839

This work is part of a growing chorus of theological voices raised in support of erotic desire. Although most theologians have concluded that there will be no experience of sexual desire and delight in the world to come, Patricia Beattie Jung critically examines the historical traditions and biblical rationales for this teaching. She defends an alternative claim that there will be a healed and glorified experience of sex in heaven based on a compelling account of the Christian hope for bodily resurrection. The first half of the work focuses on Christian foundations for the notion of sex in heaven, while the second goes on to discuss some of the implications of those convictions for sex on earth. Jung concludes with discussions of how best to nurture sexual delight on earth and how and why internet pornography fails in that regard.

Heavenly Sex

Heavenly Sex
Author: Robert Sward
Publisher: Windsor, Ont. : Black Moss Press
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2002
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Heavenly Sex is a book of poems about varieties of love, sacred and profane, particularly as experienced by a young man who has recently lost his mother. It is, at the same time, as noted by Robert Bly, a celebration of one of the more unusual father-son relationships. In one poem the son observes his distraught father as he seeks to win the affections of a beautiful new companion. Claiming to quote scripture, the father says, "A woman's breasts are the Ten Commandments, the two tablets of God's law. One for what God allows, one for what He doesn't." "The way we make love," he goes on, "is the way God will be with us." A self-taught Russian immigrant, drawing on a variety of ancient mystical doctrines, the father emerges as the book's central figure. As critic William Minor observed, Sward presents "abstruse or complex concerns in a manner that is refreshingly straightforward, even simple" at the same time he manages to tell a story, "providing a continuous narrative thread, yet remaining totally lyrical at the same time." Heavenly Sex is, in addition, a book about family and offers vivid demonstrations of the ways in which one's parents, grandparents, and one's children, live on inside one. Part II is made up of a selection of Sward's, until recently, out-of-print animal poems, Uncle Dog: the Poet at 9, Scarlet the Parrot and others. Report from the Front, the final section, is more political and satirical in tone, as illustrated by Fellatio Pinocchio, 1950s-1960s and the tour de force, 45 Poets Named Robert.

Sex and Heaven

Sex and Heaven
Author: John Portmann
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2003-03-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780312294885

"And so the way we worship apparently matters less to God than the way we make love. The diagnosis may not be limited to Roman Catholicism, for today Jewish, Protestant, and Muslim communities also struggle to decide what the next world holds for their sexual dissidents. Curiously, debates over where gay people belong now feed into debates over how much equality women deserve in the West's three major faith traditions."--BOOK JACKET.

What Your Birthday Reveals about Your Sex Life

What Your Birthday Reveals about Your Sex Life
Author: Phyllis Vega
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 777
Release: 2011-09-18
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1440509913

Birthdays hold the keys to the best sex you'll ever have--if only you knew how to read the signs. In this book, noted astrologer and author Phyllis Vega draws on the predictive powers of astrology and the ancient art of numerology to create revealing erotic profiles for you to use in between the sheets. August 8--Leo What Makes You Tick You're so self-assured that your majestic presence and logical mind make people think you know what you're talking about, even when you don't. You have very definite ideas about who should be in charge in any given situation, and anyone who wants to score points with you will make it seem as if you are running the show, even when you're not. Although demanding in relationships, you're also generous, protective, caring, and loyal. Between the Sheets Casual bedroom dalliances don't really appeal to you; you prefer saving your passion for a grand affair of the heart. Fearful of rejection, you restrain yourself until you're sure that you and the object of your affection are on the same page. However, behind closed doors, you're a fiery, dramatic bedmate. A powerhouse of sexual energy, you like being the one in control of your bedroom encounters. Tips for Your Ideal Lover Erotic massage turns you on and sharing an aromatic bubble bath with your partner puts you in a playful mood. You enjoy making a production of your lovemaking with sexy attire, sumptuous bedding, candles, and music. With this entertainingly erotic guide, you'll learn intimate sex secrets about yourself, as well as those of your lovers--past, present, and future!

Sex and the Supremacy of Christ

Sex and the Supremacy of Christ
Author: John Piper
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2005-06-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433517906

The Bible has a way of shocking us. If Americans could still blush, we might blush at the words, "Rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love" (Proverbs 5:18-19). But, of course, sin always tries to trash God's gifts. So we can't just celebrate sex for what God made it to be; we have to fight what sin turned it into. The contributors to this unique volume encourage you to do both: celebrate and struggle. This book has something for all-men and women, married and single-from contributors like John Piper, C. J. and Carolyn Mahaney, Mark Dever, Al Mohler, Carolyn McCulley, and others.

Heaven Is Like Eternal Sex

Heaven Is Like Eternal Sex
Author: Jim Sandman
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2019-10-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781721877621

What do you desire most - Love? Peace? Wealth? Adventure? Sexual intimacy? How about a good high? Super powers? To be the best you? Freedom? Do you have other longings? Would you like to have every deep-seated desire completely satisfied, and for eternity? You can! You were meant to. But you have a choice to make. And the offer has been available since the beginning of time. This book will point you to the answer.

Sex on Earth as It Is in Heaven

Sex on Earth as It Is in Heaven
Author: Patricia Beattie Jung
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2016-12-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1438463812

Offers a new theology of desire and delight based on the Christian hope for bodily resurrection. This work is part of a growing chorus of theological voices raised in support of erotic desire. Although most theologians have concluded that there will be no experience of sexual desire and delight in the world to come, Patricia Beattie Jung critically examines the historical traditions and biblical rationales for this teaching. She defends an alternative claim that there will be a healed and glorified experience of sex in heaven based on a compelling account of the Christian hope for bodily resurrection. The first half of the work focuses on Christian foundations for the notion of sex in heaven, while the second goes on to discuss some of the implications of those convictions for sex on earth. Jung concludes with discussions of how best to nurture sexual delight on earth and how and why internet pornography fails in that regard. “The book provides a valuable, alternative reading of Christian eschatological thinking about resurrected bodies and a sensitive, refreshing, and candid discussion about sexual delight.” — Adrian Thatcher, author of God, Sex, and Gender: An Introduction

Under the Bed of Heaven

Under the Bed of Heaven
Author: Richard W. McCarty
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2021-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1438486278

Under the Bed of Heaven is a work of Christian ethics that examines how eschatology might reshape concepts of sexual morality. With the rise of institutional Christianity in the Roman Empire, Christian attitudes about sexual desire and activity were soon controlled by doctrines of virginity and celibacy, or, monogamous marriage for the sake of procreation. These moral theologies aligned with a certain track of Christian eschatology, which imagined the future resurrection of the body, but without any corresponding sexual desires. As a result, traditional Christianity developed a preference for celibacy on earth to match the loss of sexual desire and activity in heaven, making marriage and monogamy temporal goods only. In recent years, a few scholars of religion have challenged whether this vision of a sexless heaven is valid. However, they have not fully developed a vision of sex in heaven that might function to critique and reform Christian sexual ethics on earth. Richard W. McCarty explores scripture, church teachings, and different models of eschatology to offer a bold new conception of Christian sexual ethics that is inclusive of LGBTQ and heterosexual people, both in and outside of monogamous configurations.