From a pastor-friend:

“On the subject of “enforced celibacy”, I know a few blokes of maturer years whose wives, due to the various factors that come with aging, are no longer excited about sex.

Two of my friends, at least, have somewhat younger single female friends of an age where their biological clocks are chasing them like Hook’s crocodile.

Although these ladies really want babies, they would probably take sex as an alternative if it were the best they could get.

Not all these men I know are Christians of course, but, leaving aside the question of marriage as a covenant, should the church enforce celibacy on them or the ladies concerned?

And to what extent is this situation different from that of enforcing celibacy on someone of homosexual orientation?

I am not asking this as rhetorical questions. I think that the covenant issue is paramount in these case. But…”

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