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According to the good pastor Rev. Ed Young, evangelical married couples need to be having more sex. He delivered the good word during a sermon to his some 20,000 followers on November 16, where he called for a week of "congregational copulation," referring to it with the rather snappy moniker, "Seven Days of Sex."
"...if you make the time to have sex, it will bring you closer to your spouse and to God, he has said. You will perform better at work, leave a loving legacy for your children to follow and may even prevent an extramarital affair.
'If you’ve said, ‘I do,’ do it,' he said. As for single people, 'I don’t know, try eating chocolate cake,' he said."--The New York Times
Zing! I dunno, can eating chocolate cake really compare to sex? I guess it depends on if you have a sweet tooth or not. Still, it seems like solid enough advice. Many couples counselors maintain that even having sex when you don't feel like it (hm) can have a beneficial effect on married life. And remember the recent books regarding couples that made vows to do it, oh say, 365 nights in a row? Seems like things worked out well enough for them.
Of course, sex may be a great panacea, but it can't erase all marital stressors. What do you think? Is a commitment to regular sex the way to keep your marriage off the divorce chopping block?
