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The Sex Talk You Never Got - Sex and Play [The MANual Ep.34]

The MANual

We've made sex into a performance, a transaction, a spiritual test. The one thing we haven't let it be is what God designed it to be. Play. Sam Jolman argues in Chapter 3 that sex was designed by God as a deeply human form of play — not frivolous, but transcendent. The kind that pulls you out of yourself and connects you to something beyond the ordinary. The problem is we've lost the category. A culture that strips play of its transcendence — turning it into productivity and performance — cannot build a healthy sexuality on that foundation. When you remove the wonder from play, you remove the soul from sex. In this episode: the theology of play, why performance and shame are its enemies, and what it looks like to recover the joy God designed sex to carry from the beginning. –– Need freedom from porn? Try the Freedom Community FREE for 7 days. Join at https://thefreedomhub.circle.so/join?invitation_token=694be568e2269e6cf4f781b65c6532e4bfbbf5d0-53adc1e7-cee9-4b2d-b879-44bdd03e2784 "The Sex Talk You Never Got" by Sam Jolman | New episodes every Friday.