Why Are Almost All Pleasures Considered Sins?

[karadan]

So how would you all view premarital sex versus martial sex? (I'm curious on the opinion from a married person)

The sex is the same. The concept of marriage doesn't change it one iota.

[LegendarySandwich]

Marriage, as defined by the state, is just a stupid legal binding between two people. It doesn't change anything as karadan said.

[LegendarySandwich]

You dismissed an actual study in another thread because I only had access to the abstract. Now you offer this. Amusing.

...And?

[Voter]

Still leaving you with an uncorrected baseless assertion.

Here's more:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news ... 07136.html
The study, done at Brigham Young University in Utah, found that married couples who had delayed sex while they were dating were more likely to communicate, enjoy sex and see their marriage as stable than those who had sex early on. They also were generally more satisfied with their marriages.
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The longer sex was delayed, the more participants in the study reported better quality of sex, communication, relationship satisfaction and perceived relationship stability. Waiting until marriage to have sex had the strongest correlations with positive outcomes.

[Recusant]

Interesting study, and probably much more relevant than the studies carried out 50 or more years ago which seem to have been melded into one and cited earlier. lol

[Voter]

Interesting study, and probably much more relevant than the studies carried out 50 or more years ago which seem to have been melded into one and cited earlier. lol

Note that earlier in the article the author gave different reasoning. Both are speculation AFAIK.

[Recusant]

It's also relevant that this study is only a measure of the subjective observations of the participants.  As such I look at it as a sort of preliminary assay. I hope that a follow-up is done in five years or so to examine whether those observations are borne out by divorce rates.