contraceptive devices, thwarted by abortion, or prevented by infertility.46 Procreation ensures the continuation of the human race and enables it to fulfill God’s mandate of cultivating the earth for God.47 Thus sex, leading to procreation, fulfills an indispensable function in God’s plan for humanity. It is in a true sense “sex in the service of God.” The second purpose for sex is tied to the relational and social dimension of the husband-wife relationship.48 When God created the woman, he declared,