with three answers. 1. Children rather than barrenness: sex is for having children, and children are a good thing. 2. Faithfulness rather than selfishness: sex is for faithful intimacy, and intimate relationship is a good thing. 3. Order rather than chaos: marriage guards sexual desires from destroying society, so that society does not descend into sexual chaos. These three are sometimes called the traditional “goods” (i.e., good purposes) of marriage. Each finds support in the Bible, and chapters 3,