Can you relate?

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How it is that we feel restless with our sexual needs?  I know the Bible says “thou shall not commit adultery” and that he created 1 man & 1 woman.

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’   for she was taken out of man.” 24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. Genesis 2:23-24

I can’t help from wondering if these rules were made to harness women. Throughout time, men have been allowed to behave with their desires and women were locked into a certain set of rules. A man could divorce his wife for sexual misconduct however, what about a man? It seems he can write his wife off if she displeases him in any way.  We also see the Bible verses about the Temple Prostitutes.

Qedeshah likely originally referred to “consecrated maidens” who were employed in Canaanite and later Phoenician temples devoted to Ashtoreth worship. As such, the Biblical writers came to associate the fertility rites of Ashtoreth worship with sacred prostitution, and the word qedeshah, therefore, came to be used as a pejorative term for “prostitute.” https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-israel/sacred-prostitution-in-the-story-of-judah-and-tamar/

Matthew 5: 31-32
 “It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’ 
32 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
We can look at history and see that men have always been allowed to act on their sexual deviations or desires without too much culpability.  Usually men were able to freely move from woman to women and other sexually deviant acts.  Woman is the one who is labeled and shunned. Woman are told their job in marriage is to provide heirs for her husband and to be at his pleasure.  She was thought of as chattel until the last 150 years. Even in Tudor England, Henry dispensed of his wives as he saw fit and kept mistresses.  Look at the 1950s and still see that women were still largely controlled by her husband. Why is the woman punished? It takes 2 to get between the sheets.
The issue for me is what is fact & what is fiction created by man?  We all have carnal desires that need to be met.  We find ourselves healthier and happier if we are in an intimate relationship with someone. Where do I fit in this double edged sword?

 

 

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