What sex acts are considered off limits for Christian couples?

[Radiation]

A rough rule of thumb here is, if it's pleasurable it's sinful.

Right, which makes me question: If God supposedly designed us and hates non-procreative sex, wouldn't he have made it so that we have painful sex by implementing some sort of thing like barbs on penises a la cats?

[R. U. Sirius]

Because making babies is supposed to feel good, and non-baby-making sex is a test of our faith.

[eldritchMortician]

I was raised Jehovah's Witness. They basically forbid premarital sex, masturbation, oral sex, anal sex, and "unnatural" sex acts (i.e. BDSM/homosexuality/polyamory etc), and even have had a history of announcing from the platform that you could lose "privileges" if it became known you participated in "unnatural" positions like doggie style within your own marriage.

I wish to god I was making this up.

[Meshakhad]

Judaism actually takes a rather different tack. Sex is as much to reinforce the bonds of marriage as it is to produce children. So while extramarital sex is still forbidden, married couples can do whatever they hell they want in their own bedroom.

[Caitshidhe]

I was raised Jehovah's Witness. They basically forbid premarital sex, masturbation, oral sex, anal sex, and "unnatural" sex acts (i.e. BDSM/homosexuality/polyamory etc), and even have had a history of announcing from the platform that you could lose "privileges" if it became known you participated in "unnatural" positions like doggie style within your own marriage.

I wish to god I was making this up.

It's creepy, isn't it?

[Søren]

I was raised Jehovah's Witness. They basically forbid premarital sex, masturbation, oral sex, anal sex, and "unnatural" sex acts (i.e. BDSM/homosexuality/polyamory etc), and even have had a history of announcing from the platform that you could lose "privileges" if it became known you participated in "unnatural" positions like doggie style within your own marriage.

I wish to god I was making this up.

It's creepy, isn't it?

Oh my god where does it say in bible that thou shalt not get on your hands and knees

[ironbite]

Somewhere in the back.

Ironbite-Revelations or something

[Sigmaleph]

If you want to find a verse in the Bible that could conceivably be interpreted to ban something, all you need is a minimum of creativity and the willingness to slog your way through.

Off the top of my head, you could probably reinterpret some of the verses about sodomy to be about any sexual practice except for whichever you consider appropriate, or claim something about treating your body as a temple.

[rtvc2012]

I was raised Jehovah's Witness. They basically forbid premarital sex, masturbation, oral sex, anal sex, and "unnatural" sex acts (i.e. BDSM/homosexuality/polyamory etc), and even have had a history of announcing from the platform that you could lose "privileges" if it became known you participated in "unnatural" positions like doggie style within your own marriage.

I wish to god I was making this up.

I can't think of anything less "unnatural" than doggy style.

[Clochette]

I once read a guide to sex for Christians that said pretty anything goes as long as it's between a man and a woman who are married to each other. However, if you wanted to roleplay, the "characters" you played had to be married. The article gave the example of a scenario in which a pirate ravishes a maiden on a desert island, and later weds her (thus making the roleplaying scenario legitimate in the eyes of God or whatever).

[Søren]

(thus making the roleplaying scenario legitimate in the eyes of God or whatever).

Oh good god thats fucking creepy. Its like a parent reading over the script for a school play highlighting dirty words

[Clochette]

(thus making the roleplaying scenario legitimate in the eyes of God or whatever).

Oh good god thats fucking creepy. Its like a parent reading over the script for a school play highlighting dirty words

After some Googling I found the article I was talking about. This is an interesting interpretation of Biblical law because the author states that homosexuality and premarital sex are wrong, but watersports and adult nursing aren't.

[eldritchMortician]

I was raised Jehovah's Witness. They basically forbid premarital sex, masturbation, oral sex, anal sex, and "unnatural" sex acts (i.e. BDSM/homosexuality/polyamory etc), and even have had a history of announcing from the platform that you could lose "privileges" if it became known you participated in "unnatural" positions like doggie style within your own marriage.

I wish to god I was making this up.

It's creepy, isn't it?

Oh my god where does it say in bible that thou shalt not get on your hands and knees

  Yeahhhhh... they tend to be really... involved with other people's sex lives. To a truly creepy degree. Along with sex being evil and life destroying until your magical marriage ceremony makes it all OK. As long as you don't do anything fun....