Furthermore, when God was finished creating he reflected on what he had made, including human gender and procreation through the sex act, and pronounced it ‘very good’ (Gen. 1:31). It is quite sad that Christians often imply that sex is dirty and unspiritual, for this is not God’s verdict. He created sex as a divine gift, and put his enthusiastic stamp of approval on it by exclaiming that sex as an expression of love between a husband and a wife is not just good, but ‘very good’.5 Additional divine