Sex

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Christians don’t talk about sex enough. Oh we do it all right. Check out any church nursery and there will be no doubt in your mind. But this beautiful thing at the core of our beings has been so co-opted by pornographers and Madison Avenue that we shy away.

So, anyway, I was thinking a little thought about sex yesterday. Not profound, but I thought I should be able to share it and why not? Mind you, this is from a guy who has been with the same woman for 25 years. Women don’t need to read this. All of you already know it. But guys, well it just might speak to that part of all of us that is brain dead.

I’ve been getting some cooking tips from my wife lately. She’s been working more and I’ve been trying to take some of the kitchen load off of her. But, she has this alchemistic ability to turn cheap food like rice and beans into delicious meals. It’s always seemed almost magic to me the way she does it. Well, I learned a couple of secrets the other day: turmeric and cumin. On their own they really aren’t that attractive to my nose. But you mix them in and they bring a zest that is quite amazing.

So my none-too-profound thought is that sex is a spice. A really, really tasty one, but a spice, not a staple. But it gets sold as an entre, the main dish. I haven’t tried it, but chugging down the whole jar of turmeric would be a pretty ugly experience, I think. Actually, eating potatoes or chicken completely dry would be bland, but better than the turmeric. I can live on sterile meat and veggies, but I don’t think I’d last long with nothing to eat but what’s in the spice rack.

Spice is wonderful. It turns the every-day into a delicious experience. But it only really works in the context of a tinge added to a lot of ordinary. And sex really only works in the context of the day to day stuff of life and relationship that has nothing to do with sex. If you go straight to the spice rack and chow down, you’ll probably ruin your taste buds.