On the views. Catholics have this belief that procreation is its only use, but the church as a whole doesn't think that way and the Bible supports this. The of is full of lustful desires and longing for the touch of the other person, and longing for her to drink from her It goes on and on in a metaphor that is used to explain the desires we should have for God, lusting after intimacy with him with the same vigor. himself (considered in the Bible to be the wisest to ever live) had wives and concubines, and the only thing God really had to say about it was, "Calm down, there is such a thing as too much." I think of the views on traditional marriage and sex are based on an old system that made sense at the time. They didn't have any real forms of birth control, and women did not work to support themselves. It was a male dominated world. So if it was expected that a take care of a woman when she gave birth to a, then it had to be expected that a would commit his life to her with a vow before consummating it with sex, because sex was so likely to lead to. I think there are things in the Bible which are no longer practiced since they were useful rules at the time, but no longer have meaning. There is a whole book full of cleanliness laws, most of which are no longer practiced, cause they are no longer things we have to worry about. Anal sex being one of them (No protection). Christians like to pick and choose from this to say things like being is wrong, when in reality, it is spoken of the same way eating pork on Fridays is, and of those people eat pork on Fridays. I personally think the church has one other flaw in it's views on sex. They view lusting as a sin. Because Christ said, not only is adultery wrong, but the to commit adultery is wrong. Christians take that to mean fantasizing is wrong. I take it to mean, you truly WANT to commit adultery. There is a difference. Fantasy and lust is a normal human condition. We can't not do it. On a side note, where is a good place to research Budism and meditation? I have been curious recently in my search for finding balance if some of the Budist teachings would be helpful.