Marriage, Sex and Family in Judaism by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781461639961
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2013-07-12T00:00:00+00:00

Sex within Marriage

I would like now to turn to the relation of sex to marriage in Maimonidean thought, as further evidence that Maimonides refracted most legal issues, where hermeneutically possible, through the teleogical prism of human cognition of the divine.

As we saw in Hilkhot De‘ot, Maimonides thought sex within marriage should be reduced as much as possible. Indeed, sex within marriage—the only type sanctioned by the law according to Maimonides—had the effect of reducing the urge itself. In discussing the prohibition of harlotry in the third part of the Guide, Maimonides states:

Another important consideration comes in as a reason for the prohibition of harlots. This is the prevention of an intense lust for sexual intercourse and for constant preoccupation with it. For lust is increased through the change of the individuals that are harlots, for man is not stirred in the same way by an individual to whom he has been continuously accustomed as by individuals who are constantly renewed and who differ in shapes and manners.68

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