"A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing."
Boatbums: " God gave us brains to go along with our sexual desires and not all intercourse MUST be for procreation only."
Exactly! Exactly the understanding of NFP.
In that sense, NFP is birth control but it is not contraception.
In direct defiance of what Paul wrote; Rome’s ‘Mary’ is described as PERMANENTLY abstaining; while her husband is permanently deprived; even of NFP.