[NC Conservative]

He also rejected "dogmas of some organized religions" that said sex is only for procreation.

I reject that notion too. If you are married have at it. Sex for pleasure is not wrong. Sorry Pope John Paul.

[hilaryrhymeswithrich]

Read my other post for the Catholic interpretation of sex in marriage. It is not what many non-Catholics believe from the fragments that come from Rome concerning birth control.

[wideawake]

Sex for pleasure is not wrong.

If the primary motivation for sex is physical pleasure, then it is simply lust and it is wrong.

Sorry NC Conservative.

[PMCarey]

Sorry Pope John Paul.

Why bother to post when you don't know what you're talking about?

[austinTparty]

Um... actually, the post-Vatican II teaching in the Catholic church is that the purpose of sex is two-fold: procreation and as an expression of love between the married couple.

[Campion]

Sex for pleasure is not wrong. Sorry Pope John Paul.

Pardon, where has the Pope ever said it was wrong for married people to have sex for pleasure?

Oh, wait: he hasn't. In fact, he wrote a book advocating it. In fact, the idea that Catholics believe sex is only for procreation is just another thing that "everybody knows," but that isn't true.