Remember: Holy is a definitive idea in Judaism. To begin with, putting things into a right perspective:
Love, marriage, family (Judaism
The Jewish wife, an ideal : Proverbs 31, verses 10 to 31, authored by Aba Abraham the Patriarch on behalf of his wife Sarah, incorporated by King Solomon (the wise, of 800 wives) into the concluding verses of his Book of Proverbs:
http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16402
Very important, for some ( for even some of the not so horn-y) it’s important:
“Men have sexual obligations to women,” crows Leif Carlsson.
I should hope that he intends to confine such activities to within marriage. Can’t stand up and say that sort of thing in his self-defence in an Iranian Court – or recommend that someone says that when charged with Zina (adultery and fornication, which islamically speaking is what all sex outside of marriage is. As things are, it is mostly women and not the guilty men who get charged with such grave sexual misdemeanours, sins, and it’s preferable to die than to commit fornication & adultery, worship an idol, and commit theft or murder.
Leif, Carl’s son, son son …or great grandson.
What is truth? You have said some truth, Leif.
True: men have sexual obligations to wo-men.
Our mothers, daughters, lovers, and wives all a them made from the ribs of men.
But that’s not all.
There’s no yin without yang, no flame without fire and theo-logy professor Leif Carlson could have given some balance and some equal sexual human rights to the statement by competing it thus: “and women also have sexual obligations to men”. A perfect equation.
“Good women are for good men, and good men for good women”
To be fair to Professor Carlsson, he didn’t say “Jewish men are better at sex than Christian men “ – that would have been terrible self-negation & downgrading of the Christian libido – the idea of being a eunuch for Christ’s sake notwithstanding
nor did he say
“Jewish women are better at sex than Christian women” – which would have led to more mass dissatisfaction with their Ingrid Bergman type, iceberg spouses – and mass Xmas defections and desertions – the deserters in search of more willing, holy and able, blessed virgin Jewish women, local-ly…
or perhaps a mass exodus of Christian males to the Holy Land or to New York, the second Jerusalem, a place where (according to Norman Mailer they ( the NY women) “use their neuroses as a sexual charm” One a them told me that going into therapy was “an intellectual adventure” of self-discovery”
Well,
listening to Mona Sahlin’s speech at Almedalen the other day, I first thought about James Brown’s song It’s a man’s world , some fragmentary thoughts about Monica Lewinsky and the USA’s first black saxophone president seeped through, more news flashes about Mr. Tiger and what would or could happen to any of his women in Iran should he have trespassed that far from home where the grass is always supposed to be greener, and finally, counting my lucky stars, about this article headline in the New York Times: The Female Factor : In Sweden, men can have it all
This train of thought was set in motion by reading this the Local News item, which reads more like a Christian’s theological opinion – or was he playing the role of comedian putting people in not biological but in religious categories, perhaps suffering from an inferiority complex, sexually or theologically speaking ? Of course it could also be verifiable fact, that holy (or even not so holy as they’re supposed to be) Jews ( the Chosen People) are better at sex than Christians . Could be that the Christian theologian is up to no good and like Martin Luther, would like to further stoke the fires of anti-Semitism just a little more, ignite some sexual rivalry between the religions and he should also be aware that sexually, the Christians will also have to contend with Muslim champions who like Orthodox and Ultra Orthodox Jews, are also said to be populating like rabbits – hence in Israel the perpetual fear of what is called “the demographic time-bomb” meaning that it is only a matter of time and the Muslims will out-populate the Jews in the Holy land. This mitigates against any “one state “solution in which, one man one vote would be the democratic order of the day and sad to say, with a Muslim majority in that one state, Moshe would no longer be in charge of the holy band, and this is no laughing matter, if the aim is to create an essentially JEWISH state.
A correction – re -
“we will not get into Paul” (the woman hater) but at least he said that it would be “better to marry than to burn” (to burn – as in “I have only one burning desire, let me stand next to your fire”? Or did he mean “better to marry than to burn (in the everlasting hell-fire of Gehenna ?
He could have very well moaned:
“But at my back I always hear
Time’s winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserv’d virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust “
Let’s be honest: In the Catholic Church, marriage is a sacrament……another level…and it’s not my purpose to go into that just now, but to remind you all that this book Kosher Sex made quite a splash sometime ago.
No, everyone here is not “a complete imbecile”.
As maksim observes the article “ is saying that Jews, as a religious people, are better at dealing with subjects dealing with sex, and that the Christian stance on sex is one that is much more prude then the Judaic stance on sex” .… and that leaves you thinking about Prince Hamlet railing at Ophelia: “Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? “ – and others in the vale of tears still sobbing about priestly celibacy and paedophilia in the Catholic Church, doesn’t it ?