Married sex is a sacrament, unmarried sex is a grave sin. (Married being a social state that is easy for two people to enter but hard for them to leave)
You realize that they didn’t have birth control, right? Sex makes babies. Marriage provides the legal infrastructure for parents to raise kids; for example a married woman is likely to have a man around when she’s too pregnant for agricultural labor. All known human societies have something like marriage (in considerable variations), and it’s hardly surprising that they thought sex without marriage was a bad idea.
Conceiving children is important and good.
If our ancestors hadn’t, we literally wouldn’t exist. Also remember that sex and conception back then were one decision, not two separate decisions.
The details of ‘sex’ are explicitly left undefined.
Even squirrels figure out sex well enough to get by. They seem to have managed.
Overall, the Puritan attitude toward sex doesn’t seem that irrational to me. There are fairly obvious reasons to adopt each of their policies, even if they were substantially ignorant of biology.
carefully chosen, but objectively false, beliefs
If you believe they’re objectively false, you don’t believe them. You believe that they’re convenient, not that they’re worth living for. If you ever get in a situation where everything has gone sideways and you really need an answer to what it’s all about, as most people eventually do, they won’t be enough.
Life has been way better since becoming an adherent of (Warhammer 40K lore)
If you have any pull with Nurgle the Plague Lord, could you ask him to knock it off?
Married sex is a sacrament, unmarried sex is a grave sin. (Married being a social state that is easy for two people to enter but hard for them to leave)
You realize that they didn’t have birth control, right? Sex makes babies. Marriage provides the legal infrastructure for parents to raise kids; for example a married woman is likely to have a man around when she’s too pregnant for agricultural labor. All known human societies have something like marriage (in considerable variations), and it’s hardly surprising that they thought sex without marriage was a bad idea.
Conceiving children is important and good.
If our ancestors hadn’t, we literally wouldn’t exist. Also remember that sex and conception back then were one decision, not two separate decisions.
The details of ‘sex’ are explicitly left undefined.
Even squirrels figure out sex well enough to get by. They seem to have managed.
Overall, the Puritan attitude toward sex doesn’t seem that irrational to me. There are fairly obvious reasons to adopt each of their policies, even if they were substantially ignorant of biology.
carefully chosen, but objectively false, beliefs
If you believe they’re objectively false, you don’t believe them. You believe that they’re convenient, not that they’re worth living for. If you ever get in a situation where everything has gone sideways and you really need an answer to what it’s all about, as most people eventually do, they won’t be enough.
Life has been way better since becoming an adherent of (Warhammer 40K lore)
If you have any pull with Nurgle the Plague Lord, could you ask him to knock it off?