I agree with much of what he says. I think couples can have a large family and still use birth control to keep the large family at six or eight and not 12 or 14. Plus there is a prudent cut off age for pregnancy: 35 according to the March of Dimes and 38 or 40 according to most others.
Older couples are more likely to be successful with natural birth control such as withdrawal and/or rhythm. A woman after menopause will probably still have an interest in sex and then her post-menopause condition is the birth control and the sex has nothing to do with procreation. But the Bible advises that couples are to be one flesh without caveats. Nowhere does it advise that ONLY procreation is the reason for copulation.
Yes, the Bible advises that couples are to be one flesh without impediments to procreation.
Though I am not Catholic, I once respected that Church for standing for Biblical teaching on birth control and families. God's judgement is often no more than the consequence of our own sin. The West will die with a whimper.
Instead of using birth control — use Natural Family Planning.
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You are right. Biblically, sex is understood to be mostly recreational between a husband and a wife.