The notion that sexual relationships are honorable, fulfilling and beneficial is obviously true, yet this truth has experienced the greatest difficulty in being publicly acknowledged.
The difficulty varies. If the idea is more often admitted in the East than in the West, this is perhaps because the condemnation is less organized. Asia did not have to put up with too many puritanical religions and it did not have to tolerate an accepted philosophical system that sundered body and soul, mind and spirit.
Descartes could no more tolerate wholeness than could Thomas Aquinas -- though for quite different reasons. For both, and for the religious and philosophical systems that followed, division was necessary.