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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought Christians were the religious people who had lots of rules about sex?[b] Jewish people have rules about sex even after marriage?[/quote][/b]

Really? you don'r know about orthodox Jewish practices?  The baths? No sex during a period? woman must be clean as verified by sometimes a rabbi if there is a question, and so on?  Sex on Fridays?

What are the sex laws in Orthodox Judaism?
A man may never force his wife to have sex. A couple may not have sexual relations while drunk or quarreling. Sex may never be used as a weapon against a spouse, either by depriving the spouse of sex or by compelling it. It is a serious offense to use sex (or lack thereof) to punish or manipulate a spouse.[/quote]

Hmmmm, and yet a whole movement is currently happening among the orthodox  right now where the women are refusing to go to the mikvah in attempt  to coerce some random man to release his wife from marriage. They are legally unwed now, but the wife must receive a "get" to be free. She cannot remarry. Her children from any subsequent relationship will be considered bastards. She will be yes, committing adultery. Until she receives 
a get,  she is still married. Now without the purifying mikvah, no sex, because she must be deemed "clean" after menses. So, that is manipulation, no? And yet, there's so much irony  here:

These women and the entire society collectively follow these manmade male rabbinical rules about a "get." They are victimized by their own system that they choose to follow.  Rabbis can authorize a ton of things, but apparently not about dissolving a marriage? Why?

So, OP, before you think about practicing this, look into the larger context of it all. Why not make up your own rules for marriage, and do what works for you? You aren't orthodox, so why does this interest you? The purity rules are followed by fundamentalist practice, but not the entirety of Judaism as a culture.

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