Book About Sex in Marriage Published by Svichado Publishing House

LVIV – On May 15, 2010, in bookshops appeared a new book “Sex, Which You Do Not Know,” published by the Svichado publishing house. The author of the book is a capuchin monk from Poland, Fr. Ksaverii Knots, who has a doctorate in pastoral theology, is involved in ministry for married couples, and is the editor of a thematic portal "Szansa Spotkania."

The book is the result of many years of work of the author and an attempt to bring to a wider circle of interested persons the biblical teaching on sexual relations in marriage.

"What does God have to do with sex?," "Marriage sex without taboos," "Intimacy 365 days a year? Yes!," "How many children does a Catholic have to have," "How to put in order polluted sexuality," and "Pyramid of marriage sins" are among the themes raised by the family consultant in the book.

"Why did the religious publishing house Svichado publish this book? Because the subject of the sexual relations in a marriage is very topical. And the created stereotype that Christians cannot receive 100% satisfaction from sexual relations, as it is a sin, is simply an ordinary myth," reads the press release of the publishing house.

In an interview to our RISU correspondent, the director of the publishing house Bohdan Troianovskyi said that after the book had caused wide resonance in Poland, Svichado began to translate it. The Ukrainian translation was prepared to print for half a year and the first edition is three thousand copies.

"Such literature causes discussions in the church itself and I think it is good. About fifteen years ago we published a book by Ingrid Trobish "To Be a Woman is Joy." It was the first book of ours that dealt with sexual relations, human sexuality in a more detailed manner. It provoked a very serious response and discussion in the church itself. The monastics, clergy, and laity expressed quite diverse thoughts on this subject. When criticism appeared, more people were interested in reading the book and when they began to read it turned out that it was not so negative as it appeared in the beginning and that there are many good things there," said Bohdan Troianovskyi.

According to the director, "It is a kind of a Christian apologetics of sexuality as a gift of God."