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I cannot prove. In the Jewish
tradition, it says that if a hus-
band brings his wife to sexual
satisfaction before he ejaculates,
she will bear a son. I would like
to see a scientifically validated
study. It could be that if there
is more wetness in the vagina,
maybe the male spermatozoa
have an easier time to get to the
ovum. I don’
t have any proof
of that, but we know that Jews
wanted to have sons.
IN OTHER RELIGIONS,
SEX IS ASSOCIATED WITH
GUILT, BUT JUDAISM
EMBRACES IT. IS IT CUL-
TURAL? GENETIC?
RW: A very important point.
Never, in the Jewish tradition, is
there anything prohibiting sex
in any position. They wanted
people to have sex. Never is it
associated with guilt. On the
contrary, it is an obligation on
a husband to satisfy his wife,
which is fascinating if you look
at other religions that have
many more problems.
HOW INTERTWINED ARE
SEX AND SPIRITUALITY?
SHOULD SEX BE A RELI-
GIOUS OR SPIRITUAL
EXPERIENCE?
RW: I’
m a sex therapist, and
I’
m saying sex should be sex.
Period. If you want to make it
spiritual, make it spiritual. If
you want to just make it bodily,
make it bodily. The important
thing is to be sexually literate, to
know when there is a problem
to go for help and to make sure
to keep sex alive even in older
age. Now, I’
m not saying that
everybody can have a baby,
like Sarah, at the age of 90. Not
likely.
WHO WOULD YOU VOTE
FOR AS THE SEXIEST MAN
OR WOMAN IN THE BIBLE?
RW: I don’
t know. But if you
ask me if there is a man who
is not alive anymore, who I
would have liked to have spent
more time with when I was in
Israel, it’
s certainly [David] Ben-
Gurion. I don’
t want to say that
I would have liked to sleep with
him. It’
s not appropriate. First of
all, he was short; second, he had
that wonderful smile when he
looked at Golda Meir.
I had never met him, but in
1948, when Israel was declared
a state, I was in Jerusalem,
dancing the whole night. So, if
you ask me anybody in history
that I would have liked to know
better, which is also interesting,
the verb “
to know” in Hebrew
is “ladá’at” — “ladá’
at” is “
to
know.
” Interesting because that’
s
what I’
m talking about from
morning to night. It’
s not just a
sex act.
WHAT IS THE MOST-
IMPORTANT MESSAGE
THE BIBLE, OR JUDAISM,
TEACHES US ABOUT SEX
AND RELATIONSHIPS?
RW: The most important
sentence in there, in my
opinion, is that God did not
want man to be alone. Period.
I think this is true even today,
when so many people, young
people and older people,
have trouble committing to a
relationship because they always
think there’
s something better
out there. So, I think that is
one lesson to be learned. The
Bible, and certainly the Jewish
tradition, wanted people to be
in a relationship.
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