Today, I am reading and commenting on  Song of Solomon 1-8.

Some people read the Song of Solomon as an allegory for Christ’s love for the Church.  Personally, that has never worked for me because I find the sexual inuendo too explicit for that.  I think that part of the reason people look for the Song of Solomon to be some kind of allegory is because the sensuality it describes makes them uncomfortable.  However, it seems to me that we should take the Song of Solomon at face value, as a love song between a man and a woman.  They appear to be deeply in love with each other, and they have strong sexual attraction for each other.  The Song of Solomon also contains some lessons about human sexuality to which we should pay heed.  As I said, the two lovers in this poem are besotted of each other, and they want to be with each other sexually.  The poem tells us that that relationship is exclusive.  The woman says ate one point, “My beloved is mine and I am his.”   The Song of Solomon also teaches that we should be patient.  We should wait to become sexually active until we find that one with whom we will spend the rest of our lives.  That has two parts, first you should want and desire to spend the rest of your life with them, but they must also want and desire to spend the rest of their life with you, and only with you.

We should not be embarrassed or uncomfortable with the sexuality expressed in the Song of Solomon. And we should pay attention to the guardrails it lays out for expressing our sexuality.