Why is Sex Fun?

Why is Sex Fun?

It is a beautiful morning as I walk out on the field for my morning constitution.  The early morning fog has almost gone and the sun is just peaking over the trees on the East.  Everything is green from the recent rains and all is at rest.  The summer has been harsh and the green seems to consist only of scrubby weeds pushing through the greening grass.  The wild flowers of spring are long gone and it is too early for fall to paint its bright colors around the borders of the field. 

What does a late summer morning offer to highlight the pervading green, I wondered as I made the bend at the top of the hill and wound my way closer to the trees and over the dew wetted grass?   I will on occasion pick a bouquet for my wife of whatever the field has to offer, but was not expecting today to be very productive.  But then there they were…a clump of white Queen Ann’s lace here, some purple iron weed there, over here some goldenrod, a bush with green berries I cannot name, and an assortment of interesting weeds which bundled together created a most interesting offering for my sweet wife.

This surprise of diverse color hiding in all the green of the open field reminded me of a column by Joe Bayly many years ago titled, Why is Sex Fun?  I borrowed the title once before when I was teaching an adult Sunday school class.  I announced the title for the next week’s class and we had almost twice as many folks as normal show up.  Marketing is everything…

It was kind of a bait and switch, really.  Joe Bayly pointed out the extravagance of a God who though he could have made us see very adequately in black and white chose instead to allow us to see in vivid color and then proceeded to fill creation with unbelievably diverse color in everything from sunrises and sunsets, painted deserts, birds, flowers, fall leaves, tropical fish, and mixed weeds.  He marveled that even in places we may never go or see, God sees fit to outfit in vibrant and diverse colors and interesting shapes and sizes.  Then his punch line, “why is sex fun?”  He observed that God could have made us like amebas that reproduced by simply dividing.  Very effective and can be pretty rapid if you have ever played host to the little parasites…but not much fun.  But He didn’t, He made it fun.

The first commandment was very utilitarian given its time and place at the beginning of creation, “Be fruitful and multiply.”  It is an interesting God, a good God who wraps this first “duty” in the the joy, the mystery, the exhilaration, the intimacy, the deep satisfaction, and yes the FUN of sex.

So…it might seem like a stretch, but to me the surprising discovery this morning of beauty erupting out of the weeds for no reason except to declare the glory of a good God reminded me of that simple question.  Why is sex fun?

Well, I got to go. I’m going to give my wife the flowers…this could be fun.