SATISFYING YOUR PARTNER (WIFE OR HUSBAND) VIS-À-VIS 1COR.7:1-5? BY REV FR PAUL IKECHUKWU OGUJIOFFOR

What is the significant of this passage to human beings more especially Christians towards satisfying their partners (wife or husband)? What are the supposed human ways of satisfaction in matters regarding conjugal love? What do we think as Christian ways of this satisfication generally? Bringing in our knowledge of science, with or without faith, with morality, spirituality and hygiene; what do we have to say or do properly? How do lower animals or beasts satisfy themselves sexually? Can we appropriate such said “sexual satisfying way of beasts” into humans? Human beings that behave like lower animals or beasts in sexual acts are simply beasts, even when they are married in the Church; this is because beasts lack Holy Spirit in themselves. No matter how human beings may try to rationalize over the beast-like nature in their presumed way of satisfying their partners sexually, they make themselves beasts by that action. It is only beasts that lick or suck the genital organs of their fellow beast partners during their mating. These days very many human beings have turned themselves into beasts and they see nothing wrong, dehumanizing, unhygienic and sinful too about it. Their arguments are: but I love it, it gives me joy and satisfaction sexually, it makes me very high and to reach orgasm quick and very much lasting, he or she is my lover (my girl friend, my boy friend, my husband or my wife), so we are okay with it and we know ourselves. Shame and woe unto us for we are turning ourselves into beasts as a sign of modernism. This is indeed a departure of the Holy Spirit and glory of God hence Ichabodic cfr. 1Sam.4:21-22, on our human existence more so as Christians, hence a rethinking is a must on this issue. Very many people have misunderstood and misinterpreted the Word of God to suit their myopic or vacuum spirituality and morality; this indeed is a dehumanization of God’s gift of sexuality.

Written on Friday 13th September 2013 Memorial of St. John Chrysostom while in MONASTERO BENEDETTINO S.MARIA DE' FRANCONI VEROLI-DIOCESI DI FROSINONE-VEROLI-FERENTINO.