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The act of marriage is that beautiful and intimate relationship shared uniquely by a husband and wife in the privacy of their love-and it is sacred. Read the first page
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Plus on Practical, Negative on Gender Stereotyping,
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This review is from: Act Of Marriage: The Beauty Of Sexual Love (Mass Market Paperback)
This book has a lot of good practical information on sex for the Christian contemplating marriage or the newly married who has little or no sexual experience. The authors are frank, which is a plus.However, this book in my opinion reinforces unhealthy and untrue gender stereotypes. In Tim's pastoral experience counseling women, they all seem to have blushed at the word sex. I wonder if he did all his counseling in the 50s. Men are portrayed as having been designed by God to experience sex primarily as a physical experience, while for women it is not very much a physical act but is an emotional act. My husband experiences it just as much as an emotional and relational act as he does a physical act, as I believe God intended for men, as I also believe he intended for women. I as a woman experience it as a physical act as much as I do an emotional/relational act. I have plenty of friends who are the same way. So much for the gender stereotypes. The propagation of these old school views on gender angered me so much in fact that I ripped the book into pieces (literally) and threw it away. There are other good Christian books that frankly deal with the topic without pigeon-holing the genders or reinforcing an attitude that has excused men from being disconnected from their emotions and their wives hearts in the most intimate act invented by God. It is an attitude that has encouraged women to be available to meet her husband's physical "needs," as if he needs sex to live, or as if her sexual drive is tiny by comparison (which I believe after the Sexual Revolution society has begun to realize is not the case). A minor issue but a point of annoyance for me: Tim reminds women to look their best when their husband comes home from work, while the the authors feel no need to say the same to men. This assumes that a) men are the breadwinners while women stay at home to do the domestic deeds (umm, I think times they are a'changin') and that b) women need to be reminded to spend time making themselves look good. Um, 'scuse me, but which gender tends to be more obcessed with their looks, and which gender is the one that tends to look sloppier and could use the reminding. ;-) For all my criticism, I admit I came to the book with anger-at-men issues, so the presence of some of these issues really lit my fuse; the book is valuable to those that can recognize and overlook the unhealthy gender stereotyping. It does contain much practical, helpful information about the physicality of sex, a topic which Christians, oddly, too often seem unable to talk about amongst ourselves. If the above topics bother you too, though, read The Gift of Sex by Penner and Penner.
1.0 out of 5 stars
misleading information,
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This review is from: Act Of Marriage: The Beauty Of Sexual Love (Mass Market Paperback)
This book gives misleading information on Natural Family Planning (referring to it as the Rhythm Method). Didn't the LaHayes do any current research, or are they just going by very old cliches? My husband and I have been very successfully practicing NFP and it has strenghtened our marraige and respect for God's gifts. To understand God's true purpose for sexual love read Open Embrace by Sam & Bethany Torode instead.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very Straight Forward.,
This review is from: Act Of Marriage: The Beauty Of Sexual Love (Mass Market Paperback)
This book was recommended in a pre-marital class I was taking. I was a little disappointed because I thought it was going to be this 'idea'and 'advice' packed read. I would only recommend this book for the "inexperienced".
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