- ISBN13: 9780385494663
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In Kosher Sex, Rabbi Boteach pioneers a revolutionary approach to sex, marriage, and personal relationships, drawing on traditional Jewish wisdom. Using his experiences counseling individuals and couples, the auth… More >>
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Bible believers have been known to conform to pretty strange religious teachings but the thought of having sex in a manner that must be pleasing to God has got to be the biggest pile of tripe I have ever come across. What makes Shmuley Boteach thinks he knows what god likes when one is in the thralls of passion?????
Never mind what your partner likes, as long as the great Peeping Tom in the sky is not turned on then the act is a no-no. ……. How utterly ridiculous??!!
Readers, as long as the parties involved are consenting adults acting in privacy and it feels good……. DO IT!!!!
Shmuley Boteach should try it some time
Rating: 1 / 5
The rabbi’s pose is transparently hypocritical because Judaism’s “holiest” book, the Talmud, teaches misogyny, the fundamental “orthodox” Judaic doctrine about women:
“Though a woman be as a pitcher full of filth and her mouth be full of blood, yet all speed after her.” —Talmud, Shabbat 152b
and also, “…a man may do whatever he pleases with his wife at intercourse: Meat which comes from the abbatoir may be eaten salted, roasted, cooked or seethed; so with fish from the fishmonger…. A woman came before Rab and complained [of her husband's sodomy with her], “Rabbi replied: ‘Wherein does it differ from fish?” —Talmud, Nedarim 20b, Soncino edition, p.58
Rating: 1 / 5
informative, but not in depth enough, nor give enough stats on how average couples perform.
Rating: 3 / 5
Being a Gentile, I bought this book for some light reading, but my wife opened the package and read it first.
Later, in bed, my wife placed a blindfold over my eyes.
Now, I was really getting excited about the things she learned in Kosher Sex; I could hardly wait.
The next thing I knew, I was in excruciating pain. I pulled off the blindfold and saw that the bed sheets were covered in blood.
In my wife’s right hand was a pair of scissors — in her left, my foreskin.
I was not amused.
Rating: 1 / 5
The masculine-feminine duality has a purpose. They are both sides of the same coin, yet in life, the feeling of this realization is fullness and its harbinger is lust. The achievement of this oneness is extatic, yet elusive. What I have just said were reflections distilled from Boteach’s illuminating work on religiousness in sexuality. What his thesis boils down to is that we need a balance of excitement and stability in order to lead a satisfying life. The solution to this is an intensely honest (that means kinky, clingy, prudish, and wandering impulses are brought to light as part of the intimicy) union governed and contingent on a firm physical, emotional, and spiiritual committment (aka marriage). Sailing on the sea of this committment, the shipboard acitivites are free to be of virtually any activity; as long as it doesn’t compromise the integrity of the ship. If the ship is strong though, it is surprising what stretches and feats can be accomplished. It will be more fulfilling than any other option. Enough of my metaphor. Boteach uses Jewish tradition in order to instruct couples on how to keep their marriages well oiled beautiful machines of enlightenment and integration of the spirit weaved through the flesh. The alchemy of the life well lived distills a self-evident elixer of pure goodness.
Rating: 4 / 5