I found tha the Question From Readers was a very misleading article when it came to 'controling of sexual passions between husbands and wives. The article is as follows:
June 2006 Watchtower
In the Mosaic Law, why were certain natural sexual functions viewed as making a person 'unclean'?
'God created sex,both for the reproduction of the human race and for the enjoyment of married couples. (Genesis 1:28, Proverbs 5: 15-18) In Chapters 12 and 15 of Leviticus, however, we find detailed statutes concerning uncleaness ascribed to seminal emissions, menstruations, and childbirth. Such laws given to ancient Israel fostered a healthy lifestyle, unheld lofty moral values, and stressed the sanctity of blood and the need for atonement for sins.
The Mosaic Law's requirements concerning sexual functions promoted, among other things, the general health of the Israelite community. The book of The Bible and Modern Medicine states: 'The observance of the menstrual cycle with the prescribed period of abstinence from cohabitation proved to be an effective preventive against certain sexual diseases... and also a definite deterrent in the formation and development of cervical malignancies.' Such laws protected God's people from diseases that might have been unknown to or even undetectable by them. Sound sexual hygiene increased the fertility of a nation that had been blessed by God with a promise of increase and prosperity. The emotional health of God's people was also involved. By obeying these laws, husbands and wives learned to control sexual passion.
The paramound issue involved in the types of uncleaness resulting from sexual matters, however, was the flow or loss of blood. Jehovah's laws regarding blood impressed on the minds of the Israelites not only the sanctity of blood but also the special place that blood occupies in the worship of Jehovah, namely, in sacrifices and atonement for sins.
The Laws detailed requirements in this respect therefore, are closely related to human imperfection. The Israelites knew that Adam and Eve - after their sin - could not bring forth perfect children. All their descendants would suffer from the effects of inherited sin - imperfection and death. Because of this parents could transmit only imperfect and sinful life, even though human reproductive organs were originally designed to pass on perfect life through the marital arrangement.
The Laws purification requirements would thus remind the Israelites not only of their hereditary sinfulness but also of the need for a ransom sacrifice to cover sins and restore human perfection. Of course, the animal sacrifices they offered did not accomplish that. The purpose of the Mosaic Law was to lead them to Christ and help them appreciate that it was only by means of Jesus' perfect human sacrifice that true forgiveness was possible, opening the way to everlasting life for faithful ones.'...
Problem 1 with this article is in the first sentence .....'married couples'. The Jews practiced polygamy and therefore a man had multiple sex partners.
Problem 2 is in the phrase 'The emotional health of God's people was also involved. By obeying these laws, husbands and wives learned to control sexual passion.'
The only one have to 'control sexual passion' was the wife. If wife 1 was not available for nuptials, hubby could go to wife 2 or 3 or a concubine. What sexual passion did he have to control.......NONE!
Since prostitution did take place in those times how was any of this supposed to protect from sexual diseases. It didn't!
Usual WTBTS BS!!!