Message: Even the Bible Teaches Anal Sex is Natural
Anal Evangelist: Many think the Bible teaches that anal sex is wrong. To the contrary, I believe the Bible teaches anal sex is the “natural use of a woman.”
The intention of this post is not to attack homosexuality, but to point out some interesting things I noticed regarding the teachings of the Bible in regard to anal sex. This is why I have truncated the following verses, as the remainder doesn’t effect the context in regard to anal sex between a man and a woman.
Some may say the Bible teaches sex is just for procreation, but that flies in the face of Proverbs 5:18-19:
Proverbs 5:18-19 says, “May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. A loving doe, a graceful deer — may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.”
That doesn’t sound like the writer is talking about procreation, but recreation.
Romans 1:27 says, “And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another…”
What then is the “natural use of the woman?”
Leviticus 20:13 says, “If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman…”
As anal sex is the only way a man can have sexual relations with another man, the logical conclusion is that “the natural use of the woman” would be for anal sex. In other words, normal sexual relations for pleasure were meant to be anal sex. This seems only logical in that there was limited means of birth control at the time these passages were written.
1 Corinthians 7:5 says, “Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.”
This verse seems to indicate sexual relations were expected to be frequent. As it is today, with limited resources, few couples could afford to feed and clothe a large family. Anal sex was (as it is today) the perfect solution to allow frequent sexual relations, while limiting the number of children a family would have.
I’d be interested to know what others think.
It’s an interesting theory, and looking back at it from our perspective it makes sense, and we do know that there were a number of cultures in history who engaged in anal sex as their primary form of sex in part for birth control purposes. I don’t think there’s enough evidence within the Bible to definitively say this was the case there, but it’s fun to imagine if nothing else!
This post made me wonder if anal sex is even allowed under Jewish law. I searched for the answer and found the following quote from an article on what is/isn’t permitted (sexually) under Jewish law:
“The Rema cites a leniency that even “unnatural” sex — a Talmudic term usually understood as referring to anal sex — is permitted even if it leads to ejaculation. From this specific allowance for non-procreative ejaculation, some extrapolate that any sexual act undertaken in the context of a permitted sexual relationship is acceptable even if it results in sperm not being used for reproductive purposes.”
Unlike the original poster, they do refer to anal sex at “unnatural”, but permitted.
Not only does it appear anal sex is permitted, but it seems to point to the fact that it may be used for recreational sex, as it says it is for “non-procreative ejaculation.”
I never would have thought about the fact it says a man should not lay with another man in the way he would a woman. Of course, there is a lot of room for interpretation of what that might mean. This is not to mention the fact the original text would have been written in Hebrew, and something may have been lost in translation.
Hebrews 13:4 “Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled…”
So it appears that, even if anal sex is not encouraged in the Bible, it certainly isn’t forbidden.
The article I quoted can be found here: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/judaism-and-sex-questions-and-answers/