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Barney Swartz reports:

WOMEN’S and girls’ magazines are full of advice on better sex, from how to catch and hold your man down to detailed instructions on sexual techniques. Now it seems the oldest written recipe, the Bible’s, might be the best.

Neuroscientific studies suggest that ”life-long heterosexual monogamy” is most likely to provide both sexual satisfaction and excitement, a Melbourne conference heard at the weekend.

While women’s activist Melinda Tankard Reist complained that Dolly magazine, aimed at 10 to 13-year-old girls, provided instructions on oral and anal sex without any context or warnings, Sydney University sexologist Patricia Weerakoon said biblical sexual ethics were healthy and life-affirming.

In a joint paper with her son, Sydney Presbyterian minister Kamal Weerakoon, she said non-religious people expected the church to be fearful, ignorant, defensive, repressed and hypocritical with only one message about sex: don’t do it.

But a biblical understanding of sex was deeply positive - ”do it, God made us for it” - while also being honest about human imperfections and limitations.

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