Christian Sex Rule

   When it comes to sex, most married Christians just do what works for them. If they have been blessed enough to have discovered something that brings satisfaction, pleasure, closeness, and climax, they most likely will continue that practice. However, some are plagued with guilt because they wonder if what they're doing is sinful.

Because there are some specific sexual behaviors that are forbidden in scriptures, this article will try to shed light on the most common sexual practices and how they relate to the word of God( the bible) and our christian life.

1. Fornication: This is sexual intimacy between two unmarried people. The bible expressly condemns this practice. "1 Thessalonians 4:3 - For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:"
2. Adultery: Sexual intimacy between a married person and anybody other than his/her spouse. It could be between two married persons who are married to other individuals or between a married person and an unmarried person. The Bible also expressly condemns this. 
   "Hebrews 13:4 - Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge."
3. Multiple Partners,Threesome, foursome etc: Sex is neither a spectator sport for group indulgence nor an event to test a person's ability to score with multiple partners. Casual sex as a way to prove one's prowess or with multiple partners simply violates all of God's intention for sexual experience. Apart from the fact that multiple partners can breed infidelity, create mistrust, performance anxiety, and comparison evaluations that are barriers to the deepest levels of intimacy. The bible talks about sex only for the husband and wife.
4. Masturbation: This is the excitation of the sexual organs by oneself, most often to the point of orgasm. This perhaps one of the most debated and least resolved sexual subjects in the church. Even though masturbation is a grey area in the bible which means that the word does not appear in the bible, one of the beauties of our faith is that God did not leave us alone when Jesus went back to heaven. He sent us the Holy Spirit to guide and help us in our christian walk and decisions. In my research on this subject , I have come across the works of several men and women - christians and non-christians alike but i have come to one conclusion which is that their arguments end lamely when placed side by side with Gods standard of holiness and purity. Masturbation is a sexual sin and should not be practiced by Christians. Like all sexual practices outside marriage, it is the defilement of one's body and spirit. Masturbation also violates Gods law of being self controlled. We have a full article coming up soon on Masturbation. See you them.
5. Homosexuality: Sexual intimacy between persons of the same sex. The bible say this practice is contrary to sound doctrine. "1 Timothy 1:10 - for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine"(NIV), "Romans 1: 26-28 - For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: ²⁷ And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
   ²⁸ And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;"
6. Bestiality: A person having sexual relations with an animal. The Bible refers to this as pervasion or confusion. "Leviticus 18:23 - Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion."