In this chapter, the wife dances for her husband and is "exceedingly visually generous to her husband", Driscoll explained. All the while, the husband is verbally generous as he compliments her and then "proceeds forward".
"Your first reaction: this is inappropriate," Driscoll said to thousands of congregants in Seattle and at satellite campuses.
"It's in the Bible," he stressed. "This is an example of marital freedom."
The 10-week "Peasant Princess" sermon series comes at a time when traditional marriage is being challenged in courts, Americans are daily inundated with sexual images, and more money is being spent on pornography than foreign aid.
Driscoll believes sex is the greatest threat to Christianity and wants to replace Christian porn, adultery and divorce with "hot, hetero, covenantal monogamy".
According to Driscoll, sex has three "denominations" - straight, gay and bisexual, each of which have websites, "houses of worship" (bars, clubs, strip joints), and "followers who vigorously evangelise and recruit new members".
Through the Song of Songs study, he says people can learn "how to have sex that is free - free from sin, idolatry, guilt, shame, condemnation, death, and separation from God - by having free and frequent marital intimacy." At the same time, Christians can learn "how to worship God the Creator and enjoy his creation and not worship his creation (our bodies and their pleasures) as a false god".
Driscoll hopes this sermon series will hit high on the iTunes chart and maybe even overtake Oprah and Joel Osteen.
"Our study of the Song of Songs is meant neither to kill our desires nor permit them to flow into deadly sin. Rather, this series is an attempt to cultivate our desires and channel them toward our spouse according to the wisdom God gives us in his Word," he explained.
In addition to preaching, Driscoll and his wife, Grace, are taking questions from congregants via text and e-mail immediately after each sermon - a daring session of unscripted answers that began at Mars Hill in January. With a no-holds-barred attitude, Driscoll has answered some of the more explicit sex questions on his blog.











