The Act of Marriage explains the sexual satisfaction for Christian married couples.

[6] Rolling Stone magazine criticized the book as "an explicit Christian sex manual, condemning petting, abortion and homosexuality.

[8][9][10][11] Within academia, The Act of Marriage is viewed as an interesting insight into the ever changing relationship between mainstream religion and sexual practice.

Michigan State Professor, Amy DeRogatis, took a deep look at this book and others of the sort to explore the impacts they have on gender roles within Protestant Evangelical tradition.

[12] While it pushes the boundaries of accepted sexual practice within Evangelical heterosexual marriage to that point, it upholds a strictly complementarian view of gender.