Because there will be new knowledge and understanding so far beyond what can even began dream of here, we will laugh with embarrassment, if not mourn for all the lost time and energy wasted worrying about it now.

I have been paralyzed from the waist (waste?) down for 23 years. I had a few short years of marriage and sex before losing it for time. Trust me when I tell you this thought has crossed my mind a time or two. Nevertheless, after having two “miracles”, born after being completely unable to produce children for 5 years, and still not able to “feel” the parts that are needed to feel the joy of physical intimacy, I have a deep understanding of the importance of sex. Thus I do not take it lightly.

I just have come to believe that what is in store for the faithful after the resurrection and things have been made “right” again, is just not even in our realm of fantasy and imagination. It will simply be perfect, whatever it is, and however it is done.

But what do I know… I am just another person looking for the right questions. I do not even hope to find the answers anymore.

That is a different question. This is just my opinion, but I believe Heavely Father looks for reasons to bless us. If your marriage, any marriage, is a righteous one, then I believe you will be blessed accordingly. Is the marriage a loving one, where the husband and wife love, support, and are faithful to each other? If so, then blessings are sure to follow.

So the question is, what kind of blessings? I have heard it said that celestial blessings come from celestial living, or by living the celestial law. For marriage, we usually think of marriage in the temple as “living the celestial law.” But you and I both know many marriages where the ONLY mark of “celestialness” is that the ceremony was in the temple, otherwise, they are at each other’s throats, or are otherwise miserable.

It is my personal opinion that there are more blessings for a happy marriage where the ceremony was not in the temple than for a miserable one where the ceremony was. The ideal, is for a happy marriage where the cerremony was in the temple. But we cannot all have the ideal, sometimes no matter how hard we try, and I believe there will be allowances for that. Some will never marry, some will marry outside the temple, some will never have children.

I don’t know how Heavenly Father will make it up to those of us who didn’t have the opportunity for the ideal, but I believe his infinite justice and mercy somehow will. The atonement doesn’t just reconcile our sins, but Alma 7:11-14 teaches that it makes up for everything. Mrs CS and I haven’t been able to have children, for reasons beyond our control. I believe that if we are faithful we will somehow be blessed. Will we have children in the afterlife by means of “celestial sex”? (to get back to the original topic) I don’t know. Will those who did not marry in the temple but otherwise have a “celestial marriage” have to repent of where they had the ceremony? I’m not sure that repentance is the word I would choose, and personally, I’m not willing to speculate more than I already have, other than to say that situations like that are what temple work for the dead is for.

This doesn’t necessarily prove that we will or will not have sex in the afterlife, but it’s worth thinking about. In fact, the whole talk is devoted to the idea that sex is holy and sacred; indeed, as Holland puts it, it is a “sacrament.” Whether or not the sexual act has anything to do with eternal life is uncertain, but I think the talk at least reinforces the LDS stance that sex is not inherently dirty or unholy, but rather, quite the opposite.