SWM 038 – Anonymous Questions January 2019 – Part 2

Alright, this is part 2 of our anonymous questions from January 2019. For those who are new to the podcast, we have a page titled Have A Question. We received so many questions in January that I had to split the answers up into multiple podcasts. So this is part 2 of 3.

I’ve been trying to group the questions together to make it a little easier.  This episode I’m tackling all the questions about anal sex (for some reason we get a lot of them), as well as some orgasm questions.

I also wanted to give a quick shout out to our supporters who helped push us over our first support goal.  Thanks to you, our monthly expenses for the blog, podcast and everything else related to this ministry!

As a result, I’m committing to at least a podcast a month, as I said I would if we hit that goal.  So far, I’m managing to keep that up this year, though we’re only in the third month.

For those who would like to support us and gain access to our private forum, you can check out our support page here for more info.  For those who aren’t, say a silent thanks for those who help keep us going for your benefit.  Here’s what one of them shared recently:

Your blog has helped my husband and I immensely in just the last couple of months. We’ve been exploring more, gotten better at communication and understanding, and been having sex a lot more often :).The culture in our North American churches and Christian families is often so harmful when it comes to the topic of sex. We don’t usually talk about it and the impression is given that sex is bad and shouldn’t be talked about. I personally grew up with so much shame about my sexuality.You are doing such good work – talking about the things so many don’t want to talk about and providing a safe place to ask the questions people are afraid and ashamed to ask. This ministry needs our support, and I am so happy that we can help.

With that said, on to the questions!

Question 8: Is hetero anal sex new?

I’m open to trying anal sex, if it’s not specifically forbidden in the Bible for heterosexual married couples. However, my husband is very opposed to it. So really there’s no problem, I’m totally happy to not try it, but it bothers me that I’m not really sure whether it’s sinful or not. My husband says that it’s so obviously depraved that it wasn’t widely practiced among heterosexual couples until very recently, when homosexuality became en vogue, and that’s why the Bible doesn’t specifically forbid it for heterosexual couples, but only for homosexual couples. Do you have any evidence to the contrary?

Yes, actually there’s quite a bit of evidence to the contrary.

One example is clay pots the Moche people in Peru made during the years 100 AD and 800 AD.  Researchers found some 10,000 clay pots, of which 500 depict sexual acts.  What they were surprised by was that the majority of those depicted anal sex.  It caused a bit of a stir in the archaeology community.  One theory for the amount of anal sex in their culture, drawn from the art, was the belief that semen ejaculated into the rectum somehow produced more milk in breastfeeding mothers.

As well, Greek culture is well known for hetreosexual anal sex.  It’s depicted in a lot of their art.  While people tend to think that the Greeks were usually only having anal sex with young boys, their cultural stance on genders makes that a little difficult to believe.