Modern people prefer to discuss their sexual problems with a physician or psychotherapist rather than with their pastor, because they assume that the former will take a more realistic view of them. Such demands are not meant to be understood literally, rather the members of the body symbolize the various desires of the Self. Such imperatives are reasonable since the various de sires of the Self affect the whole individual. Stern discipline is necessary though it is not an end in itself. It is required be cause only by withstanding the desires in a concrete way is it possible to regulate and control sex itself.
Sexual intercourse is never a passing affair.
On the contrary, in each case it establishes a lasting union between the two persons. In turn, it is characteristic of the sexual relationship that it can never concern more than two people at a time, even in cases when more than two people are in the same place and engaged in sexual activi- ties. The sexual unity of husband and wife is their exclusive mutual possession which neither of them can share with a third person. It is on this basis, not on account of legal considerations, that Jesus condemns divorce because it violated the unity of the flesh. The Bible admits no psychological or physio- logical superiority of one sex over the other.