WARNING: This post contains a topic of a sacred sexual nature and is intended for married couples only. Reader discretion is advised.
The Lord doesn’t approve of sex toys.
Within marriage, the Lord approves of sex and sexuality. Anytime
a couple makes the effort to get closer and bond with each other, I believe the
Lord’s influence is there, and He is helping them.[i]
As a youth, my seminary teacher taught us that when we come
together as husband and wife to have sex (especially when trying to get
pregnant) we can say a prayer together to invoke the Lord’s help. This made
sense to me. After all, through our marriage covenant he is the third member of
our marriage, and the covenant is a charge to “multiply and replenish the
earth”[ii],
He’s not going to be shocked that you’re having sex, and it’s in his best
interest that you are successful in creating bodies for his spirit children.
If sex toys help a couple sexually achieve the full measure
of their creation, help them develop a more fully realized sexual identity, and
grow closer to each other as a married couple, how could the Lord not
approve!?
Some may say that this argument could be used to justify
viewing ‘pornography’ in marriage (if it makes us feel closer to each other and
more sexual). But this only happens when a couple doesn’t understand what kinds
of erotica are sacred, and what kinds are profane[iii]
All sacred sexuality is an inheritance of those who have
entered into the marriage covenant, and who strive to keep those covenants.
Those who are unmarried may have sexual activity, but they can never have the fullness
of joy the Lord promises to those who utilize their sexuality as He would have
them do.[iv]
[Be sure to look for part 3 next week]
[i]
“The lawful association of the sexes is ordained of God, not only as the
sole means of race perpetuation, but for the development of the higher
faculties and nobler traits of human nature, which the love-inspired
companionship of man and woman alone can insure.” – President Joseph F. Smith,
“Unchastity the Dominant Evil of the Age’, Improvement Era, June 1917, pg 739,
as quoted in the Eternal Marriage Student Manual, pg. 139 (emphasis added)
[ii]
Genesis 1:28
[iii]
‘LDS Terminology that Shapes Our Sexual Perspective’: http://eternalmarriagebed.blogspot.com/2014/05/lds-terminology-that-shapes-our-sexual.html?zx=b58ab1f30ea0d1db.
Also ‘Mormons Take Pleasure in Sacred Erotica’: http://eternalmarriagebed.blogspot.com/2013/09/mormons-take-pleasure-in-sacred-erotica.html
[iv]
“Think of the promises that are made to you in the beautiful and glorious
ceremony that is used in the marriage covenant of the temple. When two
Latter-Day Saints are united together in marriage, promises are made to them
concerning their offspring, that reach from eternity to eternity. They are
promised that they shall have the power and the right to govern and control and
administer salvation and exaltation and glory to their offspring worlds without
end. And what offspring they do not have here, undoubtedly there will be
opportunities to have them thereafter. What else could man wish? A man and a
woman in the other life, having celestial bodies, free from sickness and
disease, glorified and beautified beyond description, standing in the midst of
their posterity, governing and controlling them, administering life,
exaltation, and glory, worlds without end.” – Lorenzo Snow, Teachings of
Lorenzo Snow, pg. 138, as quoted in the Eternal Marriage Student Manual, pg.
140.
1 comment:
I find it fascinating that "Unchastity the Dominant Evil of the Age" was published almost 100 years ago.
If God can approve of the use of so many other technological tools (telephones, computers, airplanes), then why not sex toys?
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