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By <a href=mailto:wolfb@abcnews.com>Buck Wolf</a><br><br><br> -- You don’t have to be Jewish to munch on a kosher pickle, snack on a Hebrew National hot dog, or pop open a bottle of Manischewitz. Maybe you should try kosher sex.
Meet Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the Dr. Ruth of the Torah, who is giving the world a Jewish perspective on how to drive your spouse wild in bed. And we are talking wild. Ham-and-cheese sandwiches might not be kosher, but that doesn’t mean the same is true for oral sex.
Under the right circumstances, Rabbi Boteach says he’s all for it.
“Kosher sex should be an intimate, hot, volcanic eruption between a husband and a wife,” he says. “In fact, rabbis long ago made the female orgasm an obligation incumbent on every Jewish husband.”
Are sex toys OK? Can you call a vibrator kosher? What about masturbation and pornography? America might be teeming with TV-friendly sex therapists, but hearing advice from an Orthodox Jew in a traditional long beard and yarmulke seems to be catching on. His book Kosher Sex (Doubleday) ranked No. 5 on the Amazon.com Hot 100 list soon after its release.
Intimacy: God’s Viagra?
“Let’s face it, surveys say 33 percent of all men suffer from psychological impotence, something Viagra won’t cure. And nearly three out of four women say they are faking something that is supposed to be pleasurable,” Boteach says. “We are crying out for help.”
His rule of thumb: If it increases intimacy, just do it — and that includes oral sex and sex toys. “If you are sharing and exploring each other’s bodies, I say go ahead,” he says. “You are supposed to have fun and be passionate.”
Some rabbis say such acts are wrong because a man is not supposed to waste his “seed.” But Boteach says a husband and wife are free to do the nasty as long as both parties are game and the aim is to please each other.
“I don’t recommend oral sex if that is all you and your spouse do,” he says. “God wants us to have children. But he also wants us to have fun.”
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