Genesis, thus, presents sexuality, including sexual intercourse, very positively. Sexuality is a gift to us humans so that we might live in relationship and communion and not be lonely. Human sexuality is the expression of God's creativity through which loneliness is overcome. Man's cry in Gen 2:24, -"flesh of my flesh" - comes across as an ecstatic expression of the oneness experienced in sexual intimacy.
This appreciation of sexuality is given greater emphasis in the Song of Songs. In the Song not only
is the sexual appreciated, it is joyously celebrated. It is evident today that
It celebrates playfully and lyrically the beauty of the We need to find OUT
human relationships between two people caught up Way back to ... the
in erotic and passionate love for each other. Rabbi attitude of joy in, and
Akiba, who lived in the first or second century after affirmation off the body,
Christ, considered the lyrical celebration of erotic Of Sexuality—Seen
love as the holiest of all writings in sacred scripture. as a g ift that always
He is said to have exclaimed ecstatically about the squires discipline and
Song: "The entire Universe is not as worthy as the responsibility as well.
day on which the Song of Songs was given to Israel, (Pope Benedict XVI)
for all the writings are holy, but the Song of Songs is
the Holy of Holies" (in Goergen, 1976, p. 27).