abusive. It is all beautiful and pure and innocent, and therefore it brings true joy to the happy couple and greater glory to God. The joy of the happy biblical couple reminds me of the time I explained sexual relations to one of my children, and he burst into a huge grin of unadulterated happiness in the purposes of God. “Really?!?” he said. There is joy—not only pleasure, but joy—in sex the way that God meant it to be. Part of what makes this joy possible is that the Song is not just about sex;