What is sexual purity?
At the heart of the Torah code of sexual purity is the sanctity of the marital relationship between man and wife, which is protected by the fourth of the Seven Laws of the Children of Noah forbidding a series of sexual prohibitions, including adultery, incest, anal intercourse between men and bestiality. Only a healthy, loving marriage provides the necessary structure within which to breed and raise good, healthy children as the future peace-loving citizens of the earth in accordance with God’s commandment to Adam, father of all humanity: “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth” (Genesis 1:28). The sexual drive is one of the most, if not the single most powerful of all of our physical drives, and this is our greatest challenge in life. For the sake of the continuity and ever-greater perfection of humanity, God’s law invites us to elevate our sexual desires and satisfy them within the framework of a loving marital relationship where physical intimacy becomes the very foundation of
