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9. It shows secure, committed love, and sex as the ultimate togetherness. It’s not, ‘Thanks for last night. What’s your name again?’. ‘He is mine and I am his.’ 10. Both lovers talk about their pleasure. In the book the woman makes the first move 14 times, the man only 6 times. It’s not like some cultures where ‘nice girls don’t enjoy sex’. This is equality in 1000BC! Solomon was tired of being chased by women who wanted a Prince, so he went to work on his father's country property where he was unknown. A poor, hard-working shepherd girl fell in love with him, and was horrified when she found out he was the Prince. But he didn’t mix love and power-play. (Rape can be a crime of power, a way for a weak man to feel superior to a woman.) 11. They only want each other. They're monogamous. He calls her the ‘finest of all women’ and ‘my only love’. She says, ‘It’s me, it’s me, it’s me he longs for. His passion is for me!’ (7:10) Scholars say Solomon's wife died soon after this book was written. He slept around flat out, trying to replace quality of love with quantity of sex. You might expect him to boast how great it was, but he wrote that it was "pointless, depressing and lonely" and that he had acted like "a fool". |
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