Different View
In "Melville's Quarrel with God," the author takes the position that Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick, was angry with God because God created everything. This means that if God created Good, God also Created Evil. Melville was pissed, because he didn't see the benefit of evil, only good. The author (can't remember his name, too lazy to look it up on Google, and it was 1972, anyway), took a different approach -- God was the author of everything, and everything was good, and man's burden was that man classified things into good and evil. That ties with the creation story, where "original sin" (a Christian construct, Jews don't have it) is that man ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Our heritage is to think that things are either all right (hooray) or bad (boo, hiss).
These pictures of sexual intensity drive right into the heart of that question of good/evil. Some of our fore-bearers (puritan or otherwise) decreed sex as evil, specifically sexual enjoyment. These pictures illustrate the lie of that idea. Sex is one of the wonderful pieces of human existence. Good food, good literature, good music, good entertainment, good sex. All part of the glorious gift of God (if you want to go the Creator way). The evil comes not with a pejorative against sex, but with that prohibition against enjoyment. You likey too much? Must be bad.
Thanks for the pictures, thanks for repeating the same things others have found, thanks for showing us the intensity of true sexual gratification. One of God's gifts, to be enjoyed and celebrated!!!!
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