(March 14, 2014 at 11:22 pm)shep Wrote: also, doesn't it say in leviticus thou shall not lie with another man.. that doesnt say anything about having sex with each other.
To "lie with" is a way of saying "had sex".
Ancient Jewish culture clearly had a problem with non-procreative sex, perhaps from an obsession with population growth. Maybe being constantly invaded by different empires will do that to a culture.
The rules on how long a woman must wait after menstruation before she is "clean" enough to have sex again are timed to ensure the best odds that the kosher sexual encounter will result in a pregnancy. The story of Onan implies a divine disapproval for spilling one's seed (pulling out) but that's a point of interpretation.
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