Marital Sexuality and Fertility

A few days ago, someone I know asked me: 

So, how further can we go as spouses in marital intimacy? 

What is appropiate and what is not in a "Covenant  Marriage Relationship"?

I have heard this same question  several times in many single young adults, and a lot of wives talks.
 

The marriage relationship is a sacred, private experience that binds couples together emotionally.
President Spencer W. Kimball said, “There will come a great love and interdependence between you, for your love is a divine one.”

Intimacy within marriage is a total companionship, a union that is “good and honorable in the eyes of God,” as Howard W. Hunter said: There should be no selfishness, only tenderness, respect and sensitivity with each other.

In this way there will develop a strong cord of love and friendship that can endure any trials, sickness or disappointment. This is the kind of love that never tires or wanes, made more beautiful through the expression of intimacy. 

President Kimball adds that this kind of love is one of sacrifice, purity and faith. Without these attributes, the marriage relationship shifts from deep, abiding love to lust.

Before we were in this Earth we longed for the experiences a mortal body could bring.
The "sexual intimacy" is part of the blessings and experiences we were waiting. 

Many people feel uncomfortable talking about this topic, much of our rejection or dislike in this topic has to do with the way we were raised. 

We have been given the opportunity to express our love in this way, to bring emotional and physical closeness, to experience pleasure an joy. 

"Sexual relations are designed to lift a marriage relationship from the profane and mundane to a higher plane.
 
The pleasure of physical intimacy should motivate a couple to treat each other with increasing kindness and consideration. Indeed, the feelings of love and caring generated through sexual union normally carry over into their nonsexual relationship as well."

The following video describes how the world views sex as selfish and narcissistic. 

Sexual relations should be enjoyed in a healthy marriage relationship. 

People don't just need to enter marriage pure; they need to enter prepared.

REFERENCES:

Lamb & Brinley, 2000. Between Husband and Wife, Gospel Perspectives on Marital Intimacy.

Hawkins, Dollahite, Draper, 2012. Succesful Marriage and Families.