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The Act of Marriage: The Beauty of Sexual Love
Written by Tim LaHaye and Beverly LaHaye
Narrated by Coleen Marlo
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With over 2.5 million copies sold since its release in 1976, The Act of Marriage has helped Christian couples around the world discover new joy and sexual fulfillment in marriage. This new edition expands on topics previously only touched on and includes updates on the latest findings in medicine and social science. It offers biblical principles, goals, guidelines, and charts to help couples enrich their physical relationship.
Contains mature themes.
Contains mature themes.
Author
Tim LaHaye
Before his passing in 2016, Tim LaHaye was a New York Times bestselling author of more than 70 nonfiction books, many on biblical prophecy and end-times. He is the coauthor of the record-shattering Left Behind series and is still considered one of America's foremost authorities on biblical end-times prophecy.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great book.
Very insightful and helpful as I prepare for marriage with my fiancé.2 people found this helpful
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5There’s too many instances of abuse against women in this book to justify any good advice in it. If you are a woman who wants to understand your worth before God, keep this one for research purposes only and read something like The Great Sex Rescue instead.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Would recommend Lehman's Sheet Music over this one.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I decided to read this because it's a classic, and I figured it must have some worthwhile things to say. Indeed, I have to admire how groundbreaking and progressive it must've been for the time when it was written--especially in the area of female sexuality. In that regard, it still has plenty of practical relevance for married or engaged Christian couples. There were a couple of things that troubled me, though. For one, the LaHayes place so much emphasis on the importance of sexual satisfaction that they almost seem to focus on sexuality in isolation from the larger context of marriage. I know they were countering lots of unnecessary (and unbiblical), pent-up repression, but sometimes they ventured too far in the direction of "your sex life is only fulfilling its God-ordained purpose if it's physically mindblowing"...which I also think is very wrong.
Also, the chapter on birth control bugged me slightly. They emphatically repudiate the rhythm method, but it made me a little sad that they didn't say a word about other "natural" methods (FAM, NFP) that are widely embraced as effective today (especially in Christian circles). I didn't think there was much excuse for the 1998 revised edition to ignore these methods. Instead, they (somewhat uncritically, I thought) advocate use of the pill as if it's the only liberating option for women and couples.
That rant aside, I would recommend the book as a whole to engaged couples, but would suggest that it not be their only resource. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5In my unmarriedness I considered this book more of a joke than anything else. A Christian book on sex? And it's called "the act of marriage"?? Sounds pretty hokey to me. But after reading a majority of it we found that the perspective that it gave and the instruction that it offered was incredibly healthy and useful.