I've heard this question thrown around from time to time and it always makes me laugh. I can't figure out if some people can't bear to think of a realm without sex or if they think that sex is the best thing ever and must be in heaven. When I think of heaven, sex does not even enter into the question.
However, there is something to it. I see the experience of sex as just a tiny fraction of what is must feel like to reunify with our Creator. Our relationships with our significant others parallel to our connection to the Divine, but I don't think our human minds can even conceive of such an eternally euphoric place. Why do we try to fit the afterlife into our nice neat human conceptions?
We do the same thing with hell too. We imagine utterly evil and foul scenes filled with pain and agony. And don't forget the fires--lots and lots of burning fires. Is holding onto these views of the options in the afterlife doing us any good? Does it encourage us in the wrong way to desire a happy ending and be scared to death of burning alive? Is this genuine spirituality? I believe it does a disservice to our Creator whoever He or She may be. I don't bother wondering what heaven will be like. I trust that the Divine has come up with something infinitely greater than anything I could wrap my head around. I don't bother with hell either. What's the point?
There's also the question of whether we'll be connected to our spouses in the afterlife. Is having sex with the one we love for all eternity really the best that we can do? Marriage is an earthly concept and rather limited. I wait for a place where everyone can unite together and go beyond the confines of marriage. I've heard other wonder if heaven will be boring. Do we expect God to have a detailed schedule of board games, field trips and never-ending smorgasboards? Humanity will unite with God. What could be better than this?
So who cares about sex? I'm fine with not knowing all the details and waiting to be surprised. I've never been one to ruin a good surprise anyway.
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