You try to write a book on marriage and sex with your wife and next thing you know there are a lot of ants crashing your picnic.

We knew before we wrote the book that we’d catch a lot of flak, especially on the chapters dealing with sex. We also knew the criticism would come from every direction, as some people would think we went too far and others would think we didn’t go far enough.

But we wrote it anyway. Why? Simply put, we want to help marriages — and single people aspiring to marry — and we wanted to do so in a way that is practical, biblical and applicable to the reality of today’s culture.

The book identifies three ways people tend to view sex: as gross, as a god and as a gift.