In my experience, even members of the Church, who strive to have the constant comfort and companionship of the Spirit, do not associate sex with the kinds of spiritual feelings experienced during activities more commonly associated with spirituality (i.e. a choir concert, Sacrament Meeting, missionary work, temple worship, firesides, General Conference, EFY, scripture reading etc.).
Who has had intensely spiritual highs that have corresponded with sexual behavior with a spouse? Sex after Ward Temple Night? Sex on a couples mission? Sex while on a Church History Tour?
Do intensely spiritual feelings inhibit your desire to have sex or change the ways you engage sexually? If so, how do you feel about this and why do you think it is?
For some reason when my wife and I would do our monthly temple trip, I'd get hot and horny on our way back home. That would usually allow us to play in the car ride home. It's about a 2 hour drive back. I don't know if the association is from our wedding day and being able to finally touch each other sexually or what. It's definitely something I've missed in the last year! Other than that we find it hard to pray before or after sex due to how sexual we get.
I have never associated sex with a spiritual experience. Not that i think it’s wrong or shameful, but somehow different. I mean, we pray at night sometimes before or after sex but it still is a separate event somehow isolated as by a curtain. Honestly it wasn’t until I read the story from TangoSierra when they prayed and it seemed to be a spiritual experience that I really questioned why it is so isolated in my life. I think I have repressed feelings of being taught how “bad” anything outside of marriage is that I didn’t think of it as a spiritual even within marriage. Also my husband is a good man but his feelings on sex are very repressed. As I read the stories in on this page I start to see how different it could be. Now I find myself hoping that it can be although I‘m not sure how to get there.
Thanks for this project. It gives me a little hope of a more fulfilling sexual experience within the framework of the church.