How did we get here as a society? I was at the drug store and I observed two teen girls picking out condoms. Is our nation overly influenced by sex? Hollywood? Music? Schools?
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Pain is the essence of injury. To be harmed by or want to harm the one you love is strange to me. I don't know...just strange to me.
Restraint, blindfolds, etc. are just sensory deprivation. When one sense is denied the others increase. It can actually enhance the experience.
Pain is simply the opposite of sensory deprivation. Two sides to the same coin, so to speak.
Now, answer me why sensory deprivation is acceptable, but sensory (over) stimulation is not. If it's between a married couple, what could possibly be the problem? Right...?
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Pain is simply the opposite of sensory deprivation. Two sides to the same coin, so to speak.
Now, answer me why sensory deprivation is acceptable, but sensory (over) stimulation is not. If it's between a married couple, what could possibly be the problem? Right...?
It might be on God's list. But we'll never know.
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
Pain is simply the opposite of sensory deprivation. Two sides to the same coin, so to speak.
Now, answer me why sensory deprivation is acceptable, but sensory (over) stimulation is not. If it's between a married couple, what could possibly be the problem? Right...?
If a couple wishes to turn off all lights, use blind folds, or restrain one another that's different than inflicting pain. It's just weird to me. That's all I'm saying.
I think whatever is acceptable to BOTH is fine, as long as there is no immoral, criminal or injurious activity.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Mark Driscoll has some good things to say on this topic.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Truth, I agree with you. A spouse should never imagine being with someone else while with their mate. However, pretending that their wife is a French maid is entirely different.
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