Kosher Sex?

quotes from here http://www.jewfaq.org/sex.htm

New Haven, husker's quotes were from the link I posted. According to Judaic law, it could certainly be interpereted that a healthy sex life between spouses IS a moral sex life.

By which commandment?

Test!

The pupils will get you if nothing else does!

Unless yer messin' with us, the 613 Mitzvot would be the source....the opinion of the rabbis would be interperetation, of course.

I know that. But which one of the 613?

urgh...somewhere in a subsection of #248...why, does it matter?

"We have to have the facts mam"!

Joe Friday (Dragnet)

I'm not a mam, so therefore not obligated to give you the facts

Hey your Rabbi is more on the ball than i thought.

Yes, that is exactly what I was talking about, and yes you have to go to the Hebrew because like I said it's more explicit than the English translations riddled with euphemisms.

In the KJV they are kissing navels. Reminds me of the joke "that's not my belly button!" "it's not my finger either"

The Torah does not forbit the intentional destruction of semen.

Craven...Onan? That story is quite explicit...

The statement is something like "Thou shalt not waste thy seed on sterile soil". ( My rough recollection of that part of the Torah).

Sterile soil would waste the seed(s), because of the impossiblity of any fertilization ever taking place.


CAV:

Was this said in that part of theTorah, where a man is by law required to marry his brother's widow?

I see!

Well, in terms of the 'spilling of the seed' issue, seems women win out again This should clarify:

Jewish law clearly prohibits male masturbation. This law is derived from the story of Onan (Gen. 38:8-10), who practiced coitus interruptus as a means of birth control to avoid fathering a child for his deceased brother. G-d killed Onan for this sin. Although Onan's act was not truly masturbation, Jewish law takes a very broad view of the acts prohibited by this passage, and forbids any act of ha-sh'cha'tat zerah (destruction of the seed), that is, ejaculation outside of the vagina. In fact, the prohibition is so strict that one passage in the Talmud states, "in the case of a man, the hand that reaches below the navel should be chopped off." (Niddah 13a)

The issue is somewhat less clear for women. Obviously, spilling the seed is not going to happen in female masturbation, and there is no explicit Torah prohibition against female masturbation. Nevertheless, Judaism generally frowns upon female masturbation as "impure thoughts."

Yep, NH, seems like it might have been...

Not female masturbation but something else. I would suspect self-induced abortion by eating some of the alkaloidal vegetation, that was around in those days. (Which are still around ).

They are the ergot alkaloids.


In the case of a woman, "spilled seed" would be the aborted fetus.

Hmm...my Hebrew is way rusty, so don't expect me to tell you anything about the original texts

Song of Songs?

I cannot consider myself a great expert on Judaism (despite of my location and citizenship), but I know that basic approach to sex in this religion is not so much different from this in Christianity: sex is "kosher" when it is in wedlock and intended for procreation.