No way! Not the same at all.
Having sex with a condom give you all the pleasure of having sex.
Skipping sex does not.
That isn’t hard, now is it?
You said: That isn’t hard, now is it?
That’s what she said.
Oops... Bless me father for I have sinned, it has been ...
Pffffft!
Women.
So, does that mean that other forms of sexual pleasure that aren’t a part of intercourse that’s ‘open to life’, to use the popular term, are not OK then, even between married couples? Because it’s quite possible to skip intercourse and still get a significant amount of sexual pleasure... I’m not trying to pick a fight here, just genuinely curious about the logic here, or the stance of the Catholic Church as they’re the people relevant to this article, and where the moral rightness or wrongness of preventing pregnancy fits in all of this.