And among its [sex] advantages are the lowering of the gaze, shelter for oneself, the power to abstain from what is forbidden, and obtaining the same for women. And this is an advantage for oneself in this world and in the next, and it is advantageous to women. And for this reason the Prophet (SAW) pledged Himself to it and loved it, and said: Of your world I have been made to love women and perfume. And in Imam Ahmad’s Book of Abstinence – for this hadith – there is a nice addition: “I can hold back from food and drink, but I can’t hold back from them.”