Model Marriage by Bishop Dag Heward Mills

Grey Area on Sex

Warning: Either partner can contract an infection especially in the mouth or throat

after oral sex so it is important to ensure that the genitals are clean and

nice-smelling, by washing thoroughly with soap or bathing before

engaging in oral sex.

If both of you enjoy oral sex and find it pleasant, then it will be an exciting and innovative

variant to routine marital sex.^2

2. Anal Sex

Anal sex is the introduction of the penis into the anus of the woman. The normal function of
the anus is a passage for faeces and not to receive the penis. Anal sex is therefore an unnatural
use of that part of the body.

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman...

Romans 1:27

We therefore do not recommend it.

3. Sex During Menstruation

There are some questions associated with having sex during menstruation.^3

And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be

put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the

even.

Leviticus 15:19

In Leviticus 15:19, sex during menstruation was forbidden. However, we are not under the
Law. If we are under the Law, then we are under all the different laws. A good example of a law
that we clearly do not implement is the law of death to all non-virgins who marry.

But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:

Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the

men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought

folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away

from among you.

Deuteronomy 22:20,21

The ceremonial laws of the Old Testament teach us PRINCIPLES, but we are not under strict
observance of these laws. Leviticus 15:19 gives us a general principle that sex during
menstruation is to be avoided. However, it may be necessary for a couple to have sex even during
the wife’s menstrual period.