tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post9204629245866929005..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Sexual bulimia - pathology is normality for modern sexualityBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-8508492875924879002015-01-09T19:17:44.697+00:002015-01-09T19:17:44.697+00:00Bruce:
...the idea that all sexual acts should in ...Bruce:<br /><i>...the idea that all sexual acts should in principle be capable of conception</i><br /><br />That is not the Catholic doctrine. The doctrine is that licitly completed sexual acts are always the <i>kind of act</i> which, when not naturally or accidentally infertile (the majority of sexual acts are in fact naturally infertile even among young couples who do not contracept), generates children. <br /><br />So for example there is nothing illicit about a post-menopausal woman marrying, etc. Catholic doctrine permits naturally/accidentally sterile acts (which again are the majority) but does not permit deliberately mutilated (contracepted) acts - even when those mutilated acts accidentally produce children. The doctrine addresses the kind of act, not the fertility of the particular act.<br /><br />Just clarifying the actual doctrine, not making an apologetic argument for it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-12520255844219037622015-01-09T09:19:10.482+00:002015-01-09T09:19:10.482+00:00@B - Indeed, but that theology (at least in some f...@B - Indeed, but that theology (at least in some forms I have read) develops a chain of inference on this and other premises with which I do not agree - for example, the idea that all sexual acts should in principle be capable of conception. <br /><br />I consider that a reductio ad absurdum which should lead to a re-examination of premises and procedures; rather than a necessary inference from valid *and complete* premises and procedures. <br /><br />In other words, this principle of sex linked to procreation is important, but is not a *sufficient* premise from which to derive human sexuality - therefore contraception and non-procreative sex are not *ruled-out*. <br /><br />Many devout Mormons practise contraception and also *choose* to have large (but economically autonomous) families - this proves that contraception is compatible with exemplary family attitudes and life.<br /><br />http://mormonfertility.blogspot.co.uk/ <br /><br />However, in practice, the use of contraception may in some/ most situations prove unworkable. <br /><br />In most societies there probably needs to be a normative doctrine of sex as in its and general practice essence procreative. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-56108833723893550882015-01-08T21:15:16.747+00:002015-01-08T21:15:16.747+00:00This is similar to the pre Vatican II Catholic pos...This is similar to the pre Vatican II Catholic position.<br /><br />You should read Pius XI encyclical Casti Connubii. Boethiusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-29303624337118499452015-01-08T14:26:29.090+00:002015-01-08T14:26:29.090+00:00Wow! Bruce, you really have a gift for putting thi...Wow! Bruce, you really have a gift for putting things in plain and simple perspective. Thanks for taking the time to put all this out there. The effort is much appreciated by this reader. Thanks.Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14131427883067501547noreply@blogger.com