Sex Is A Spiritual Act

Sex has a powerful emotional aspect, because although sex is a physical act, God meant for it to be a joining of the soul and mind and moral conscience and all the other intangibles about two people.  That’s why premarital sex can leave us feeling good for a moment, and not just physically.  It gives us an emotional rush.  But when the wave of good emotional feeling is over (however long that may take), bad emotions set in.  When we deal in the moral realm, we are faced with moral consequences.

Even though sex and love both have strong emotional components, those components are not the same.  Rather, they are parallel; they cannot be one until two people have been made one through the commitment of marriage.  In that context, sex and love can be expressions of the same emotions.  Marital sex becomes a model of God’s provision and selfless giving, drawing us closer to each other and to Him.

Josh McDowell and Dick Day, "Why Wait?" p.256