Others see a drama being acted out, the drama of King Solomon welcoming a young country maiden into the harem of his palace while her own heart and passion is not for Solomon at all, but for her beloved, the shepherd. Some of this may have some validity, but we are still dealing with love poetry, romantic, passionate love poetry that express a longing for the physical delights shared intimately between a man and a woman, the joy they find in one another's bodies. This is intensely personal stuff, a little embarrassing. I read from Chapter 4. Men, I don't guarantee that these images of sheep and pomegranates and gazelles will arouse your wife's romantic passions, but maybe women in Solomon's day had a greater appreciation for fine poetry.
Sex is good.
But it's more than that. Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh. God doesn't think sex is dirty at all. I think the biblical view of sex is that it is such a special gift that we demean it and diminish it terribly when we parade it on our movie screens and it becomes nothing more than a brief encounter with someone we hardly know. They are always seeking, always wanting something that they never get, always unfulfilled.