Where the Rubber Hits the Road

WOW! If men thought about sex every seven seconds, wouldn't we see their corpses all over the road? Pedestrians would be at particular risk. If they didn't step in front of a moving vehicle because the were sexually distracted, if it's a man behind the wheel it's likely he won't see the pedestrian. Thank God this 'modern myth' has been busted before we collapsed as a species! Who the hell thinks up this stuff? And more importantly who believes it? Every seven seconds of every day? I don't think so. Men don’t think about sex every seven seconds: study - The Globe and Mail

The Catholic University of America wants to re-instate single sex residences. While I question how effective this would be in reducing people having sex, it is fascinating to see people threatening to sue over the issue. Precisely what part of 'Catholic' are they having trouble understanding? Single-Sex Dorms Spark Legal Controversy in D.C. - Law Blog - WSJ

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...

Thank God for celibacy??? Maybe we'll see more priests - but they may all be hypochondriacs!!! Sex can be bad for the brain, new study says

I have only one problem with this letter from the Bishops. They have again published something that is putatively addressed to the laity, (in this case, married couples) but they employ language that's beyond their understanding. It makes excellent use of theological language to express the nuance and finesse of this teaching but this renders it almost incomprehensible to anyone without training in theology. Until the Bishops learn how to present their message using the parlance of everyday life, comprehensible to the majority of Catholics, they're wasting their time and resources as few can take advantage of what they offer. They must come to understand that people are bushed when they get to that point in their day when they would be free to read such a document. They're too tired to slog their way through the dense theological language that the letter is written with. The Bishops have forgotten that the Catholics that they are addressing, lack the catechetical training...