Where the Rubber Hits the Road

Understanding Sex Through the Mystery of the Trinity One of my friends has been trying to explain the Theology of the Body to one of his friends, and asked for a good way to explain what Catholics mean when we say that sex should be "unitive and procreative." What we mean is that: Unitive : Sex should draw the husband and wife together into a more perfect union with each other; that through it, "the two become one flesh" ( Genesis 2:24 ), in a way fully knowable only to God. Procreative : Sex should call forth new life, or at least be open to it. Authentic love isn't jealous, it's creative. To understand sex, I think you need to understand the Trinity. In the Trinity, God the Father loves God the Son, the Son is Beloved, and the manifestation of that Love is the Holy Spirit. Fr. Barron does a good job explaining that here . It's precisely because of that Love that God made the Universe and everything and everyone in it. So the Trin...

Is an orgasm the most important thing in life? By connecting celibacy with pedophilia, people are saying that they believe that, denied the opportunity for an orgasm, they would likely violate the moral imperative not to harm innocents. This is the logical conclusion of those who claim that life would not be worth living if they were to be denied this physical pleasure. That one would be unable to sustain a growing and mutually beneficial relationship with a partner if they were unable to have their sexual needs serviced is another conclusion that flows from this flawed premise. If someone could violate as deeply an ingrained prohibition as for adults to abstain from sexual activity with children rather than be deprived a regular orgasm, is it be hard to believe that a spouse would also violate their marital obligations to their ‘life partner’ under similar situations? If celibacy deforms priests, then surely those married individuals who find themselves in denied sex with a part...