[Mrs. Don-o]

All honest sex is procreational, in the sense that even when you have intercourse and it is not (naturally) fertile, it still builds the pleasure-bond, the couple-bond, which helps make the couple happy and satisfied enough to stay together --- and this is important to the stability of their marital fidelity and the thriving of their children.

Even when sex is not effectively fertile, it signifies and supports fertility and the building of the family.

IOW, the unitive power of sex is an important help to the fertility of sex, as well as going beyond the natural good into the supernatural good: manifesting the love of Christ for the Church. A "Magnum Mysterium." Sacred.

And due to God's Intelligent Design of the female reproductive system, the woman is, as you know, only intermittently fertile. Continuous pregnancy, or limitless sequential pregnancy with no breaks in the sequence, is not part of the design.

[metmom]

All honest sex is procreational, in the sense that even when you have intercourse and it is not (naturally) fertile, it still builds the pleasure-bond, the couple-bond, which helps make the couple happy and satisfied enough to stay together --- and this is important to the stability of their marital fidelity and the thriving of their children.

You are contradicting yourself.

Because not all sex IS procreational.

Therefore you condemn couples where the woman had a hysterectomy or where the woman is past menopause.

I have seen enough on these kinds of threads to know how condemned sex for the pleasure of it is, and that condemns by default, all who have sex for the pleasure knowing that they can no longer have children.

There was a thread some time back about a Catholic couple, who agreed to live in a platonic, sexless marriage, and they were championed for it.

[Elsie]

WHEEEeee!!!

I'm glad THAT's over!

Now we got three weeks of FUN!!!