[NYer]

The modern world has reduced this sexual union to bodily satisfaction, and in so doing, it has separated body and soul. We already have a word for the permanent separation of body and soul—that is ‘death.’ By reducing sex to the level of the body—that is, the animal level—we have created a “culture of death.”

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[Mrs. Don-o]

So true and so important.

Permit me to use this as a pretext to pass along a good quote from my favorite philosophical giantess, Elizabeth Anscombe:

“Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment
pay the penalty:
they become shallow.
At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude
is always shallow.
They dishonour their own bodies;
holding cheap what is naturally connected
with the origination of human life."
G.E.M. Anscombe
Contraception and Chastity (1975)

[narses]

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