I find it interesting that Luther thinks that the act of making love is fulfilling God's wishes by procreating. I am wondering if he decided that having sex with your spouse (or someone else's if yours is impotent) was a good thing to do because he was human and had the urge. So many religious-focused people we have read about before have emphasized restraining physical desires while Luther is saying the opposite.
This bio has taken a turn! I can't say now that I'm attached, but it has definitely caught my attention and made me crinkle my face a time or two. I never knew who the Lutheran church came from and this book is telling me things about the man that I would have never thought. But I can't say it's a bad thing, it's important to know that people are human and have hemorrhoids and nocturnal emissions! Seriously!
...okay I'm done I can't talk about that anymore eww...
To return to your presentation and the relationship between these ideas an early anatomical theory, sex did have a natural place in maintaining proper health. Though, it reminds me of a fable in itself: not too much (this would make men effeminate) and not too little (repression is never good).
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