No Longer Quivering
by Lori Alexander from The Transformed Wife – Do I Promote Marital Rape?
Editor’s note: Dear Lori, Anytime someone is does not want to have sex and they are forced to have sex against their own will it is rape. Perhaps what you are advocating is not classic rape, but telling women they have no rights of refusal is advocating slavery, borderline rape and a host of other unspeakable things. Partners should have the ability to say no when they don’t want sex. Compromise is important in marriage. One-sided ‘yes-man’ behavior is a recipe for disaster. You are advocating in women participating in their own sexual abuse.
I believe in God’s Word. I want to live in obedience to it; for it is the least I can do. God commands us to not deprive our spouse sexually in 1 Corinthians 7:5 so I teach women to not deprive their husbands sexually. Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control (1 Corinthians 7:5). This isn’t marital rape. God doesn’t say that husbands should force their wives to have sex. He commands the wives to not deprive their husbands and husbands not to deprive their wives for lack of self-control.
This is teaching women to lovingly serve their husbands and submit to them. We reap what we sow. If we sow love and good-will towards our husbands, we will most likely reap love and good-will from them. There is nothing evil about this. Plus, I only teach women, therefore, every single thing you read on my blog and Facebook page is geared towards women.
QUOTING QUIVERFULL is a regular feature of NLQ – we present the actual words of noted Quiverfull leaders, cultural enforcers and those that seek to keep women submitted to men and ask our readers: What do you think? Agree? Disagree? This is the place to state your opinion. Please, let’s keep it respectful – but at the same time, we encourage readers to examine the ideas of Quiverfull and Spiritual Abuse honestly and thoughtfully.
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