Premarital sexual encounters can be defined as good, better and best too.
If you define it based on initial feelings. It's unnatural. (Wait a second; I'm on a forum with people who don't seem to understand this term beyond their own initial feelings.) It's unclean, or sin, or evil, or unlawful, or against God. Whatever term you actually understand. Combine them all and see what they all say that's in agreement.
Slavery was abolished in the 19th century.
It's not slavery. You bond with each other, so you are no longer two, but one. Therefore, there is coequal ownership of both bodies, because the marriage contract makes them one, not two. You own her body as much as you own your own body, and she owns your body as much as she owns her body. Control of said bodies may not be direct, as it is with your own, but it is still co-equal. Does anybody not get this? I know it's kind of a hard thing to understand. There is no slave or master. You are partners. Originally, it's your being owning the body (actually more like lent to you by God more than ownership.) Your spirit has the body. Your spirit and the spirit of your wife become partners. Both of you have co-ownership over both bodies. If the husband needs relief the wife should relieve him. If the wife needs relief, the husband should relieve her. This way they dont go looking elsewhere for relief. Even if they arent looking, the body is weak. If the body isnt completely self-controlled the person may give in to temptation. This is not to put blame on a wife for a husband cheating. It is ultimately a husbands choice whether or not to acknowledge the marriage contract. Also, a man giving his body to another woman without the consent of the wife goes against the co-ownership. Beyond this, it goes against God. This also applies to the wife giving herself to another man. The contract of marriage can be broken by consent of the wronged partner in the case of adultery. (Its easier to understand when brought out in legal terms, isnt it.) There is no obligation to break the contract in such a case. Other than death, adultery is the only legal way (God being the law maker) to break the contract.
***Please See the Last Paragraph of Post #157 for a Correction***
It is good to go along with such laws. It says nine times in Deuteronomy to do what is right that it may go well with YOU. This is referenced in Ephesians 6:3, however referring to honoring your father and mother. God doesnt need you to do what is good for it to go well with Him. He can destroy the earth and populate it with the ones that did do His work. He doesnt because He waits for the people who will come to Him, to come to Him. How can God be evil when He allows Himself to be discussed by this world that He made, and to be heartbroken by this world He made; and yet doesnt destroy us all? He makes curses fall upon Himself so that we can be blessed. Its for US. God wants you to do good that it may go well with YOU. He has shown us what is good. If only people cared to follow Him, instead of being rebels and acting like they have more wisdom than Him. Its like watching a bird fly into a glass window. If only they would do what is right and pleasing to God, then it will go well with them. Then they will have life to look forward to, and not death. It's very simple. Why is this so hard to accept?