Some of my heretical beliefs as a man of faith - pleasure

I have been labeled a Christian and a heretic for my beliefs, but few people know what I believe and what I believe is a changing paradigm and not a static one.  So I thought that might be a good thing to go through some of what I believe.

Here is my view on whether God is for us having pleasure or not.  I have heard many a sermon over the years about how wrong it is to experience pleasure in our lives.  How that pleasure keeps us from God.  However I disagree with that premise.  I really believe that God wants us to have pleasure.  Before anyone ever did anything wrong by eating a certain fruit, there was a naked man and a naked woman in paradise and the first words that we read that were spoken to them basically said that they were to go have sex and keep having sex until there was not enough room on this Earth for another person to be born.  To me that shows that we were created to have pleasure.  God wants us to have pleasure.  I believe that God is happy when we are having pleasure.

So what then is the deal with all the "Thou shall nots"?  I believe that God did not put those in there to punish us or to keep us from pleasure, but those are to keep us from getting hurt and/or hurting others.  It is a lot like us teaching our kids not to stick their fingers into an electrical socket.  They might think that is fun to do such things but we teach them differently because we know that sticking your finger into an electrical socket will hurt you.  I do not believe that God is wanting to keep us away from pleasure, but wants us to enjoy it without getting hurt or hurting others.

Another aspect of these "rules" are that they are the natural result of true love.  If we truly love then that love will cause us to act rightly towards others.  It does not diminish pleasure, but it makes pleasure more pleasurable.  I believe that pleasure that flows from love is the highest form of pleasure that we will experience.

Dennis