Consider the English Puritans, who have been wrongly regarded as utter prudes when it comes to the joys and delights of marriage, especially those dealing with the experience of sex.9 As J. I. Packer puts it, they gave marriage “such strength, substance, and solidity as to warrant the verdict that … under Go … they were creators of the English Christian marriage.”10 Like the Reformers, the Puritans strongly opposed clerical celibacy and affirmed that marriage is as intrinsically good as virginity,