Everything has to revolve around sex, doesn't it? It's just impossible to believe that people can do without.
Imagine Joseph was much older, a widower. That he brought a young Mary into his protection because God told him to.
You Protestants seem so eager to have sex with Mary. Remember how the Ark of the Covenant caused boils and hemmorhoids to the unfortunate folks who "stole" it and touched it? Why? Cause it was God's seat. It was a holy thing.
Mary's womb was where God resided for 9 months. You do believe Jesus was always God right? Why would you want to risk defiling a holy place like that? And with your most prized possession, at that?
Parents raise all manner of children all the time and still have time and energy for a normal husband-and-wife relationship. Where does the RCC come up with this notion?
It's the Truth. There is no need to "come up" with the Truth. You do know that, don't you?
Aside from the fact that Mary's "cherry" would have vanished when her birth canal opened so that Jesus could emerge... unless you are saying that His BIRTH was another miracle that did not entail the usual things most births not Ceasarian entail, just so that she could stay virginal...
Without being any more vulgar than necessary, a woman's virginity is determined not by the state of her hymen, but by how many men she has had intercourse with. Mary remained a virgin even after Jesus passed through her.
What comes out does not make a woman an unvirgin, it is what goes in.
SD