Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse! ... His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

Mark Twain
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I can’t say I’m surprised to hear that sex has been left out of heaven. Marriage and family life is a huge part of what makes us human and we leave out a lot of things when we imagine the perfect world. The idea that sex is not in heaven is just one more sign that we live in a fallen world. God created sex outside of marriage and family life, but he also created it within the context of marriage and family life.

He didn’t create it just for pleasure, he also created it for procreation. Sex is a beautiful thing made even more beautiful when it is between a man and a woman, but the idea that God did not include sex in his perfect world is a sad reality.

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