Compton argues that Smith’s plural marriages generally included marital relationships in this life, and that sexual relations were probably included in many sealings to already-married women. He distinguishes probabilities from direct evidence and leaves individual cases open, including Helen Mar Kimball’s, while reconstructing the women’s religious commitments and the costs of their marriages.
- Todd Compton, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Signature Books, 1997).
Nothing specific is known about sexuality in their marriage, though judging from Smith’s other marriages, sexuality was probably included.