I have already mentioned the book "I loved a girl" by Walter Trobisch which is advice a christian missionary gave to an African man and his eventual wife about sex and relationships. And I thought I would paste below a part that intrigued me. If you keep in mind I come from a conservative Christian context you may be able to glimpse why I found it more spacious that the traditional rhetoric. I added the stuff in ( ).
From p. 74
"You write that Christ hasn't heard your prayer. I ask you, what did you pray for? That he would deliver you from being a man (woman)? What do you want? To be without sex? To have no more desire at all?
What you speak of is not possible. All that one does, one does either as a man or woman. Your sexuality is in your waking and sleeping. It is present with you when you work and when you pray. In your holiest feelings and in your purest prayers, it is there.
If you believe in Christ, then you know that your body has become the temple of the Holy Spirit. If you pray for the mutilation of the temple, then Christ will not hear you. Christ wants to make you capable of living with your manhood (femalehood sexuality...)
Must the one who believes flee from love? I know there are many Christians who withdraw themselves and who turn their backs on it. They avoid the opposite sex (or whoever they are attracted to) and think by doing so that they are especially mature and redeemed Christians.
They fool themselves. (S)He who believes does not flee. Christ did not evade this issue. He came into this world. He was a young man. He came into touch with woman's hands, woman's kisses, women's tears. .... "
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