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If you were honestly, truly, only willing to have sex with your wife when the possibility of procreation was there, you'd abstain during non-fertile times.

That you can't see the difference between intercourse while pregnant and intercourse using a condom or the pill says more about you than about the Church teaching you reject. All the other situations you mention do not involve a willful desire by the participants to defeat the procreative aspects of intercourse.

If you don't abstain when she's not fertile, your little speech about harlots and brothels is a lie. Period, end of message.

Nope. It holds up perfectly. Prostitutes and their customers attempt to willfully eliminate the procreative aspects of intercourse. What is one to say about married couples that emmulate such behavior?

I see from your profile that you are married, and that your wife is expecting your second child, so naturally you would find it offensive for me to bring up sex with a pregnant woman. Nevertheless, it is a fact beyond peradventure that a pregnant woman cannot conceive whilst pregnant.

If the obligation is to have sex only when procreation is possible, then you are not fulfilling that duty.

The Catholic Church does not eschew the use of science in any other realm of existence, be it disease, medicine, agriculture, whatever. God gave us intellect and the ability to solve problems. No other church prohibits birth control, not even the Jews and the Orthodox Catholics. I predict that the prohibition against contraception will be withdrawn in the future.

I will concede that you have a superior understanding of prostitutes. I have no idea how sex with prostitutes differs from sex with any other woman.