Fascinating article. As an ex-catholic, I found myself agreeing with most of what he said. An aspect he failed to mention is the horrendous guilt piled up on pubescent boys, told that even thinking bad thoughts, let alone masturbating, is a certain ticket to Hell. It's no fun spending several years certain of your own damnation. Embracing Athens too closely injected an unhealthy warped view of sexuality into the bloodstream of the Roman Catholic church. The veneration of virginity, especially as personified in the BVM, can seem to negate the sweetness and godliness of marital passion.
Really? I have read time and time again, that married, committed, truely practicing Catholics have fantastic sex lives that are guilt free.
We have nothing to feel guilty about. IF engaged in sex within marriage.
Where do you think the phrase "missionary position" comes from? Hmmmm? Protestant missionaries.