The Adam and Eve thing makes me laugh. Based on that predication, either their kids fucked each other to procreate, or Adam fucked his daughter. There is no other logical explanation for the continued existence of the human race.
Because of the association that had sometimes been made in the Bible between sexuality and uncleanliness, St Augustine had to figure out how Adam and Eve procreated without sinful lust.
In
City of God, this is the solution he came up with:
“We do in fact find among human beings some individuals with natural abilities very different from the rest of mankind and remarkable by their very rarity. Such people can do some things with their body which are for others utterly impossible and well-nigh incredible when they are reported. Some people can even move their ears, either one at a time or both together. Others without moving the head can bring the whole scalp-all the part covered with hair-down towards the forehead and bring it back again at will.
Some can swallow an incredible number of various articles and then with a slight contraction of the diaphragm, can produce, as if out of a bag, any article they please, in perfect condition. There are others who imitate the cries of birds and beasts and the voices of any other men, reproducing them so accurately as to be quite indistinguishable from the originals, unless they are seen. A number of people produce at will such musical sounds from their behind (without any stink) that they seem to be singing from the region. I know from my own experience of a man who used to sweat whenever he chose; and it is a well-known fact that some people can weep at will and shed floods of tears.”
In other words, given that there were 5th Century equivalents of the following two blokes, Adam and Eve getting it on without ardour is not as improbable as it might seem:
Theology, eh? The so-called 'Queen of the sciences'.
I think some here know that I am a retired teacher of Religious Studies and Philosophy.
You can probably imagine the fun I had teaching this to my GCSE & A Level students using those clips.
The only problem was that I then had to caution them not to mention any of this in their examination answers, as the examiner might not know, not have time to check, and think they were making stuff up and taking the piss.