Sexual Morality
In the beginning, God created a moral universe. Or so indicates the Judeo-Christian Bible.
How do we know this? God in the Bible represents goodness and all that is morally right. When God created the universe in 7 days, as Genesis reads, He saw that things such as light were good, and passed judgment on things which were not as good. When God set about creating humans, He created man "in His image" - not only physically so, but giving him powers as He had. Man has domain over the earth, God has domain over all. God created women as a helper to man, and put them in the created Garden of Eden. God tells his new human creations to be fruitful and multiply - giving them their duty to reproduce. Since this is a God-given direction, it must be morally good, since God is good. This is the root argument why any other sexual desire (eg. homosexuality, bestiality, etc.) are seen as morally wrong in Judeo-Christian societies: it was not God's order. And so, Adam and Eve exist in the Garden of Eden and all is well, it seems.
Here's where things start to get a bit murky.
In the Garden, there is everything two humans need to live happily. They are with God, and they have all the different types of animals and plants to see. God tells Adam and Eve that they can eat anything they want - except from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. If they will, they die. And, for a time, they're perfectly happy not to.
In any case, along comes a snake (with legs, remember, they lost those legs as punishment for what it was about to do next) and slyly debates with Eve about eating from the forbidden Tree. The snake sets up a choice: do you want to live in blissful ignorance and be taken care of? Or do you want to have knowledge (and therefore power), like God? Most people know the story after that: Adam and Eve eat the apples and gain the knowledge they sought. They become ashamed of their nakedness, hide from God, and when they are discovered, are punished and thrown out of Eden. They do not die in a physical sense (according to the Bible they die hundreds of years later), but they do die in a spiritual sense: they are cut off from God's morally created Garden, and forced to shape the rest of the earth by themselves.
The price of knowledge is faith: to believe without knowing is God's will. To know without believing is sin.
Leviticus and Romans talk about sex in the same basic fashion. The former lays down the law in writing about things such as incest, adultery, etc. The latter talks about lust and how men and women have exchanged natural for "unnatural" passions. Song of Solomon talks about love and sex as well, but takes a different view. This can be seen in this website's Philosophy of Love section.
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