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does comp teaching have on the fact that so many men within their congregations struggle with sexual sins.

I’m not necessarily sure this is true. What I mean is that sexual sins including adultary and pornography but even lesser sins of oggling and immodest behavior are rampant throughout the entire church body. I do not believe either the comp or egal camps are immune. And of course, although there are certainly virtuous men in all circles of life, the statistics show amazing (and distrubing) uniformity of sexual sins across all demographic sectors.

1 Corinthians 7 is another great passage which may enjoy some play here in the future. I don’t know if there any other place in scripture where equality within marriage is more stressed than in the bedroom. Now, that doesn’t mean everyone in every kind of congregation studies 1 Cor 7. But it is there.

I know many feminists have long argued either that Christians en mass are sexually repressed (hardly true!) or that Christian men hold their wives as sex slaves. I suppose there could be a tendancy for the latter in comp marriages, but I have no evidence that that is true. As far as I know, comp men are just as likely or not to have good sexual relationships with their wives, even if the rest of the relationship sucks. But I don’t know. Again, I would be interested if someone has a study which looked at this issue.

One thing I do think that is fairly widespread is the unhealthy view of sexuality within more conservative or traditional families and churches. That is a shame. Again, if those types of churches are predominantly comp, there may be problems with withholding of sex and the subsequent sinful acting out on the part of the men. Again – no evidence, just speculating.