This essay presents important representative historical Roman Catholic and Protestant views about sexual pleasure from the New Testament period to the present day.

“Sexual Pleasure,” in The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality and Gender, ed. Adrian Thatcher (Oxford University Press, online 2014; print 2015): 505-522.

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