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The Church is definitely saying sex is bad, sex is a sin, must only be used for making children, not for pleasure, even in married couples. It's insane.
by JBiserkov 8y ago
The Church is definitely saying sex is bad, sex is a sin, must only be used for making children, not for pleasure, even in married couples.
It's insane.
- faissaloo 8y agoSex clearly isn't a sin unto itself because it's needed for making children, so it's not that. If this was it why wouldn't pornography of married couples be a-ok?
- computerfriend 8y agoYou missed the "not for pleasure" part.
- faissaloo 8y agoNo I didn't, by your logic breeding pornography of married couples should be ok.
- losvedir 8y agoCome on, that's ignorant. Nobody is saying that.
- ben_w 8y agoI went to a Catholic secondary school. Some people definitely were saying that.
- losvedir 8y agoI did, too, and never heard it. Maybe you're confusing the idea that you shouldn't have sex not for procreation (ie the stance against birth control) with the idea that sex is only for procreation? IOW the Catholic teaching is that procreation is a necessary but not sufficient reason for sex.
- ben_w 8y agoPlausible. It was about 20 years ago now.
- tuespetre 8y agoIf you mean the Catholic Church, that is incorrect. That teaching is that sex is good, sex is not a sin by itself, but must happen in the correct context of a mutually consenting married couple and must be ‘open to conception’ (i.e. no artificial changes to the procreative ‘mechanisms’, such as condoms or birth control.) They even teach ‘Natural Family Planning’, which is basically how to enjoy sex in rhythm with woman’s fertility cycle so as to ‘naturally’ avoid conception. Not practicing Catholic anymore but that’s what I was taught from the Catechism et al several years ago as a convert.