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Judah and Tamar Revisited

Faith Adjacent

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Don't You Dare Emit Your Semen?

When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water. Any clothing or leather that has semen on it must be washed with water and it will be unclean until evening. This law was located in a specific cultural context of Hebrew belief that pro-creative fluids are symbolic of transmission of sin from generation to generation through childbirth. So what these guys are saying is, listen, you should not be having sex at all unless it's for the procreation of children. In 2023, Denny Burke wrote an entire blog post called taking a dog by the ears? Well, and he's commenting on a book called The Great Sex Rescue By Sheila Gregor

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