The Brain and Romance and Sex and the Bible

Why would God tell us humans not to engage in promiscuous sexual relationships? Is God, the Creator of sex and procreation a killjoy that enjoys seeing His creatures crave something He forbids them to have? Well, the more we learn about the brain the more sense God and His word make

The deep limbic system of the brain is the core of memories, feelings, motivation, bonding and so forth. Dr. Daniel Amen, a psychiatrist out west, writes about the importance of the limbic system on his we site. www.amenclinics.com (I have added some of my comments.)

Whenever two persons are sexually, neurochemical changes occur in both their brains. These chemicals cause limbic, emotional bonding. Limbic bonding is the reason casual sex doesn't really work on a whole mind and body level.

Two people may decide to have sex "just for the fun of it," yet something occurs on another level that they did not want at all. Sex placed an emotional bond or connection that is hard to break. One person will form an attachment and will get hurt when the affair ends. It is usually the woman because the size of a female's limbic system, in comparison to the rest of her brain, is larger than a mans. Thus, she is more likely to get limbically connected.

For thousands of years God's laws and social conventions protected women from this kind of suffering by strict rules against promiscuity. Since the Seventies and Women's Liberation females have insisted on having promiscuous sex as much as men and the results have been emotionally devastating for females.

Losing a spouse is traumatic in a different way than losing any other type of loved one. Once you have made love with a person, having the connection broken through death can be extraordinarily painful because there is a "deep limbic connection." The spouse has become part of the chemical bond of that part of the brain and it takes time for that bond to dissolve. Your deep limbic system misses the person's touch, voice and smell. As scripture says:

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, "THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH."

But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body. I CO 6:15-20

Now that passage makes more sense and the pagans in Hollywood and politics have been put to shame because of the damage they are doing to people. No wonder there is so much depression and confusion among otherwise well off women. They have voluntarily given away portions of their hearts to anonymous men hoping to be "free" and independent but it has brought about destruction and self slavery.