If God does in fact exist, it's hard to believe that He doesn't enjoy having sex, or at least have some sort of a masturbatory life. I found an interesting site on the 'Net last week that was an essay on this topic, but I don't remember exactly how it went.
Also, if Jesus really /is/ the son of God, how do we know that God did not in fact have sex with Mary? I find it hard to believe that a testosterone-riddled deity such as God wouldn't seize the opportunity.
I'm going to assume that Jesus was human here. Even if he wasn't, the chances that he didn't have a sexual life are slim, and the chances that he didn't masturbate are almost nil. As the saying goes, 95% of men have masturbated sometime in their lives, and 5% of men lie.
Even if Jesus was divine, he almost surely had testosterone, which makes it nearly impossible for males to resist the urge to mate or at least masturbate between the start of puberty and the early 20s. In Jesus' time, most men started their sexual lives somewhere between the ages of 15 and 18, usually marrying women a couple years younger some time during this period.
Perhaps Jesus had a wife, but later they abandoned each other because their love was not lasting and/or she did not share his beliefs.
Or-- get this-- perhaps Jesus was a homosexual (or a bisexual) even! If this was the case, then there's a lot more here to talk about. I once asserted that Jesus held a polygamous homosexual relationship with his disciples. Most Christians will say that at the time, the kinds of things Jesus and his disciples did together were normal. This is true to a certain extent, but it still seems that Jesus was at least a tad more intimate with his disciples than was OK at the time...
Also, if Jesus really /is/ the son of God, how do we know that God did not in fact have sex with Mary? I find it hard to believe that a testosterone-riddled deity such as God wouldn't seize the opportunity.
I'm going to assume that Jesus was human here. Even if he wasn't, the chances that he didn't have a sexual life are slim, and the chances that he didn't masturbate are almost nil. As the saying goes, 95% of men have masturbated sometime in their lives, and 5% of men lie.
Even if Jesus was divine, he almost surely had testosterone, which makes it nearly impossible for males to resist the urge to mate or at least masturbate between the start of puberty and the early 20s. In Jesus' time, most men started their sexual lives somewhere between the ages of 15 and 18, usually marrying women a couple years younger some time during this period.
Perhaps Jesus had a wife, but later they abandoned each other because their love was not lasting and/or she did not share his beliefs.
Or-- get this-- perhaps Jesus was a homosexual (or a bisexual) even! If this was the case, then there's a lot more here to talk about. I once asserted that Jesus held a polygamous homosexual relationship with his disciples. Most Christians will say that at the time, the kinds of things Jesus and his disciples did together were normal. This is true to a certain extent, but it still seems that Jesus was at least a tad more intimate with his disciples than was OK at the time...