There is a certain interest both within and outside the Jewish (more or less Orthodox) world about the issues regarding physical intimacy and the religious approach to pleasure. Although not always offering high quality advice but rather excuses for looking for marital pleasure, there are books that entered the public space lately aimed exclusively to the Orthodox, practicant young audiences.
Rabbis and practicant people are becoming experts and utter public opinions about issues that are usually forbidden to mention in the strict environments, such as sexuality. The approach is more common among the 'modern Orthodox', especially a religious group that is trying to adapt to the challenges of modernity. Among them, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach ''America's Rabbi' is at the forefront of this new trend. Boteach was not only very close to Michael Jackson but authored several books aimed to support the need and religious support for a more open-minded manifestation of desire and sexual fulfillment in marital relationships. He even wrote a book about this topic together with Pamela Anderson. Let's skip the part of comments and thoughts about it and jump to the concepts.
Kosher Lust is an interesting although not innovative way to encourage search for intimacy in marriage. Based on various examples both Jewish and non-Jewish, it is clearly targeting a group of practicant Jews more open to the modernity including in its marital aspects. It asks the man to oblige and the woman to openly express and communicate its desires which in the strictly Orthodox environments is relatively impossible as sometimes the words are missing as well as the easiness to express things not common within the community and its sources. The Biblical references are mostly well chosen, but added the author's interpretation that it is not necessarily original. I am also sure that the average liberal Jews will not buy easily the explanation of separating spaces for women and men as well as some details regarding the impure period of time of the month.
I personally found the book relaxing, useful for changing the shift from the eternal search for love to the simple enjoyment of the moment of lust which makes the marital life much easier. However, I am not sure that would love to read all the book in the series and browse all the variations on this topic. It is a thing good to know but not too know all about it.
Rating: 3 stars
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