A few weeks back we talked about why a husband should be the primary initiator in sex.

If you haven't heard those episodes, we encourage to go back and check those out.

I think we made a pretty compelling argument.

Leadership is squarely on the husband's shoulders. The word

headship is a biblical one and it comes with all kinds of baggage and

leadership is one of those things and we believe that that should permeate

the entirety of a couple's life for their good.

It's for their health and it's for the glory of God.

It's a very beautiful, wonderful thing.

But then as we were talking about it, we had this question,

or actually we had, we kind of in passing said hey there's all these purposes so if you

don't detach so excuse me if you detach the purposes of sex from it yes then it

becomes like this oh I just want the physicality of, I want the physical act of it.

But the only way that husband initiating makes sense, that us having a whole podcast episode dedicated to that, the only reason that makes sense is if you have in view

these what we I think eightfold purposes and there's probably more there's ways to pull it apart but there's

different purposes for sex the the things that it accomplishes, the things that as a couple we can hope to gain by having a healthy sex life.

So today we are dedicating too. What are we dedicating it to, Selina?

Talking the purposes of sex.

So yeah, we will see you on the other side.

I feel like we've talked about this like thousands of times, but when I went back to actually search for like purposes of

sex we've never actually named an episode or like had a talk we've written about

it we've talked around it we've talked about it. We've talked about it, probably misnamed it something different,

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