Adventistische Schriften über: "What does Ellen White specifically say about sex in marriage, especially bondage play? Are there statements that only certain forms of sex are permitted and others are excluded? Please provide concrete quotations."

In the provided writings of Ellen White there are no specific statements on particular sexual practices such as bondage play, nor does she list detailed allowed or forbidden forms of intimacy in marriage. Her advice focuses on general moral and health principles: she warns against excess (\"excesses\"), the unbridled lower passions, and against making the partner a mere instrument of pleasure. Sexuality in marriage should be characterized by mutual respect, purity, self‑control, and the preservation of health and sanctification.

Self‑control and Avoidance of Excess in Marriage

»Many parents do not acquire the knowledge they ought to have concerning married life. They are not on guard so that Satan does not deceive them and dominate their mind and life. They fail to recognize that God requires them to keep their marriage free from any debauchery. Yet only very few regard it as a religious duty to master their passions. They have united in marriage with the partner of their choice and infer from this that marriage sanctifies the gratification of lower passions. Even men and women who profess piety give free rein to their lustful passions and do not consider that God will hold them accountable for the expenditure of life‑force, which weakens their vitality and debilitates the whole system.«

1 - Ellen Gould White, A Solemn Appeal (SA 170.1)

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Pure Love versus the Degradation of the Partner

»It is not pure love that drives a man to make his wife a tool serving his pleasure. It is the animal passions that demand satisfaction. [...] Love is a pure and holy principle; but lustful passion tolerates no restraint and is guided by neither reason nor self‑control. [...] Men of this sort demean the woman they have promised to care for and cherish. She is turned into an instrument to satisfy lower, lustful inclinations. And many women submit to becoming slaves of lustful passion; they do not keep their bodies in sanctification and honor.«

2 - Ellen Gould White, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2 (2T 473.1)

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Setting Boundaries to Protect Health and Conscience

»The question that now must be resolved is: Should the wife feel obligated to submit unconditionally to her husband's demands when she sees that nothing but lower passions dominate him and when her reason and knowledge convince her that doing so harms her body, which God has charged her to preserve in sanctification and honor and to keep as a living sacrifice to God? It is not pure, holy love that leads the woman to satisfy her husband's animal inclinations at the expense of health and life.«

3 - Ellen Gould White, A Solemn Appeal (SA 175.1)

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No Detailed Regulations Except Avoidance of Excesses

»At no time did Ellen White prescribe any rule other than to avoid excesses. She wrote about the ‘priority of the family relationship’ and the ‘priority of the marital relationship’ and explained that ‘Jesus did not impose celibacy on any class of people... He looks with favor upon the family relationship in which holy and self‑less love reigns.’ [...] In fact, Ellen White, instead of, like Graham and Fowler, establishing a fixed rule, stands alongside the modern discerning marriage counselor who leaves the question of the frequency of sexual relations within marriage to the spouses themselves.«

4 - Ellen G. White Estate, A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health (CBPH 15.5)

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