God and Sex by Michael Coogan

Author:Michael Coogan [COOGAN, MICHAEL]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REL006050
ISBN: 9780446574136
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2011-11-02T16:00:00+00:00

OTHER PROHIBITED SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS

Following the list of prohibited relationships between a man and women under another man’s control, Leviticus 18 continues with other prohibitions. The first forbids having sex with a woman during her period:

You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity.43

The primal taboo about reproductive emissions of both men and women is found frequently in the Bible. Ejaculation makes a man ritually impure for a day—for this reason, men were prohibited from having sex while engaged in holy war.44 If ejaculation occurs during sex with a woman, she too is impure for the rest of the day.45 In females, other normal vaginal emissions, including not just menstruation but discharges associated with childbirth, also make them impure.46

Two further prohibitions follow:

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