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No it isn't. Have you read Song of Solomon?
That is a blatant misreading of the quoted passage, which specifically states that sex should be a regular part of married life, and that a major goal of this sexual activity is gratification of your partner. The Bible contains numerous depictions of erotic love portrayed as a positive good, and again, there is an entire book of erotic poetry right there in the middle. You are quoting the one passage most conducive to your desired distortion and portraying it as normative, hoping that people won't notice that this passage is an outlier and that even as an outlier it still doesn't say what you want it to say. It's also ignoring the passage's historical context: whatever your thoughts on when and by who it was actually written, the text is explicitly framed as advice for people who are about to undergo an attempted extermination by the Roman state. Having a spouse and children doesn't make it easier to handle imprisonment, torture or execution for your faith.
Nor is it necessary to approach this question from pure theory; it's pretty simple to reduce this to an empirical question and just look at surveys of sexual satisfaction, in which conservative Christians score highly.
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