New answers tagged sexuality
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Rape perpetrated by an adult male towards a girl under three years of age: halachic framework
In any legal system with carefully defined rules, there are edge cases where the particulars of a case allow instances to fall through the cracks. A reading of Rambam may lead to a conclusion that ...
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Are homosexual relations forbidden by God? Why?
Well what would you define as a wrong form of intimacy? If we are to only to view the wrongs in sexuality in an objective view. (married woman, family member) And not with a subjective wrongdoing, ...
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Who discovered Sexual intercourse
Yalkut Shimoni here
אמר רבי אלעזר: מאי דכתיב זאת הפעם? מלמד שבא אדם על כל בהמה וחיה, ולא
נתקררה דעתו, עד שעה שנזדווגה לו חוה.
Adam tried having intercourse with every domesticated and wild animal
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Rambam's Mishneh Torah - Is a female pure after relations with a minor/gentile/animal?
The Rambam explains - the pasuk says 'וְאִשָּׁה אֲשֶׁר יִשְׁכַּב אִישׁ אֹתָהּ'... To exclude anything that isn't a fully grown Jewish adult man. Not that the Torah is condoning it, but it doesn't ...
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Is there anything wrong with getting married to have intimacy?
It sounds like you are asking if Judaism has something analogous to the Shiite Islamic practice of Nikah mut'ah. A marriage for pleasure which is set to contractually expire at a predesignated time.
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