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Holy Love ?

by br t

Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 03:27:16 PM PDT

Is it proper for Christians to allow fun and enjoyment to enter into their love-making?

The answer to that question is a resounding... YES! ... at least according to a happily married Christian couple in England who've started a very successful web-based business devoted to that very premise.

So far their best customers have been... clergy.  

A British couple who launched a website selling sex toys to conservative Christians has revealed that vicars are some of their best clients.

Stella Hagarty and husband Stan revealed that they had decided to launch 'Wholly Love' to show normally reserved church-goers that sex is a gift from God, and that it should not be treated as something sinful.

And the website seems to have gotten its stamp of approval from God himself, as vicars make up some of the couple's best clients.

"We have been expecting a storm of protest over what we're doing, but we've had no negative feedback so far. In fact we've had a lot of orders from vicars themselves,"

The Hagarty's say they strive to offer a pleasant, guilt-free and tasteful experience for couples to find products to help them celebrate God's wonderous gift of sex within the context of a christian marriage.

 

Holy Love:


That sex within heterosexual marriage has been designed by God. At its best, within this context, it is pure and right - there is nothing bad or dirty about it and it should be enjoyed - often! This is part of what the Bible has to say about sex that has not come across very clearly at all from the Church as a whole - we want to redress the imbalance a bit! It is a gift from God that enhances and strengthens married life.

Well all I can say is that I think this Wholly Love website endeavor sounds like a very good and spiritual idea to this fun-loving and joyfully married Christian man..... and I'm not even a member of the clergy.

(as posted at Cristo Lumen)


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  • Nice site (0 / 0)

    too bad I am not in England

    SP's Bible in a Year: http://www.streetprophets.com/story/2005/10/19/105536/72

    by JCHFleetguy on Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 03:34:14 PM PDT

  • All sensuality (0 / 0)

    is a gift!

    Music, beauty in all forms, strawberries, chocolates, high-thread count sheets, good red wine and sex toys-- all would make my version of the old Ben Franklin quote that "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!"

    The antidote to bad religion is good faith.

    by Deborah Brown on Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 04:19:32 PM PDT

  • giving to each other (0 / 0)

    For a Muslim perspective, see Sex as Sadaqa. Sadaqa is translated in the article as "worship through giving".

    As the diarist said, sex in marriage is one of God's precious gifts, something to be celebrated.

    "Riches does not mean having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment." (Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him)

    by lauramp on Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 05:30:16 PM PDT

  • From Corrinthians 7:2-5 (0 / 0)

    But because of immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. Let the husband fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again lest Satan tempt you because of your incontinency.

       

    by br t on Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 06:31:07 PM PDT

  • Holy Love ... (0 / 0)

    ... can be also be experienced within a committed gay relationship. I know, I've been there.

    Every time I've fallen in love, the power of that love has made my faith grow.

    by Propheticus Lycanthroponica on Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 10:10:37 PM PDT

  • The NT is very vague on sex (0 / 0)

    Licentious behavior, promiscuity, giving oneself over to craziness, is clearly discouraged ...

    But there is the sense in St Paul that marriage is, if not the best way to worship God, the best way for people to get "the flesh" exercised so that it becomes less problematic.

    I.e., if the Christian husband doesn't have fleshly fun at home, he will be more tempted elsewhere.

    Somewhere amidst these arid proscriptions, I think we are supposed to be hamadryad-hot for our partners.

    Also, I'm guessing this site is still pretty embarrassing to the couple's church!

    by Mike Finley on Sun Feb 05, 2006 at 04:57:54 AM PDT

  • Of course (0 / 0)

    Wiccans see so struggle between sexuality and spirituality, because we see sex as a gift from the Gods that mirrors the generative forces that created the universe.  Like the Charge of the Goddess says:

    "All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals"

    Blessed Be

    Taliesin Athor Govannon: HP, Coven of Caer Arianrhod... Taliesin's CovenSpace Page: http://taliesin.covenspace.com

    by Taliesin on Sun Feb 05, 2006 at 11:39:12 AM PDT

  • Nice Web$ite (0 / 0)

    Scared to talk about this kind of stuff, prob not the place for it.

    Sex is sacred.

    But for the guys

    Semen is sinning.

    Ejaculation is an abomination.

    by Elijah on Mon Feb 06, 2006 at 12:14:52 AM PDT

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