Not surprisingly, the "Seven Days of Sex" sermon that Pastor Ed Young gave his Texas congregation earlier this month has really caught on.

Young challenged his parishioners to have sex with their spouse every day for a week to see how it benefited their relationship. And although he bases his 'sexperiment,' as he calls it, on Christian ideology--that God created sex for husband and wife--it would seem that the fundamental message is resonating outside church walls: more sex is a always a good thing, even if you have to schedule it.

Yesterday's New York Times' 'seven days of sex' story shot straight to #1 on the Most-Emailed List.

In the article, Young's congregants report that on the seventh day they were feeling pretty good.

One parishioner, Rob Hulsey, 25, said his Baptist relatives raised their eyebrows about it, but he summed up the reaction of many husbands at Fellowship Church when he first heard about the sex challenge -- "Yay!"

A week later, he and his wife, who are expecting a baby and have two older children, could not stop holding hands during the sermon. His wife, Madeline Hulsey, 32, said she was just as thrilled to spend a week focusing on her husband. Usually, "we start to kiss, and it's knock knock knock, Mom!" she said.

Others found that, like smiling when you are not particularly happy, having sex when they did not feel like it improved their mood. Just eight months into their marriage, Amy and Cody Waddell had not been very amorous since Cody admitted he had had an affair.

"Intimacy has been a struggle for us, working through all that," Ms. Waddell said. "This week really brought us back together, physically and emotionally."

So Pastor Young told his parishioners to keep going.

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by Anya Strzemien | November 25, 2008