Why does the Church prohibit pleasure?translated

For some reason, the stereotype regarding the Church is very persistent: once you cross the threshold of the church, you say goodbye to everything that makes life pleasant. Intimate relationships, alcohol, delicious food, fun - all this is supposedly prohibited, because it is a sin. Where does this belief come from and how true is it?

Let's start with the main thing: Christianity does not treat pleasure as something that is reprehensible in itself. Already in the book of Genesis it is said that God made every tree to grow for man that is pleasant to the sight and good for food (Genesis 2:9), and the Psalter calls: rejoice, ye righteous, in the Lord (Ps 32:1). Christian life does not at all imply a mandatory renunciation of earthly joys. Fun, delicious food, and marital intimacy are not in themselves something bad. The question arises when pleasure ceases to occupy its rightful place in a person’s life and subordinates it to itself.

A good example of this relationship to pleasure is marital intimacy. Christianity does not see anything unclean or reprehensible in it: Let marriage be honorable in all and the bed undefiled (Heb. 13:4). But intimate intimacy is conceived precisely in the context of marriage, fidelity and responsibility of spouses to each other...