It took me a long time to realize that contraception, such as the pill, is bad for society. I think the Catholic Church gets this much right, at least.
While it is true that “people have always had sex”, I think it is also true that society has rarely been so obsessed with sex. Sex today is just “always good”. If you’re not having constant sex, then “something’s wrong with you”.
In fact, if sex and procreation are linked (as they always have been), society would tend to be a bit more circumspect about sex. We say “sex sells” (it does) and then we surround people with sexuality. Because, you know, that’s how you get rich. That’s probably not a good thing.
A moral society, one which is able to exercise some control over their libido, would help us avoid some of the trouble we see today. That doesn’t mean all the women need to wear hijab. But perhaps some return to moral standards would be a good thing.
The whole culture has shifted on sex matters. People have always had sex, and did so outside marriage before we had birth control pills. But the culture was different then, and if any accidents happened, often couples would get married. Nowadays you rarely see such weddings because of a pregnancy.
It would be interesting to have discussions about the overall impacts on society of birth control and the whole sexual revolution and change in attitudes surrounding sex.
“It took me a long time to realize that contraception, such as the pill, is bad for society. I think the Catholic Church gets this much right, at least.”
I’m not a Catholic and I agree.
I’ve never used birth control (eight children will attest to this) but the big thing for me is that sex has never been reduced to a casual way to pass an evening.
The very first time I had sex changed my life because there was the very real chance that I was getting pregnant.
That meant I took this very seriously and I was also very convinced of my husband’s commitment to me or else I would not have been doing that with him.
Birth control diminishes that need for commitment and it also takes a very serious decision and makes it trivial.
All of the girls I grew up with had the trivial experience and none of them...not one...are still with the boy/man that they had their first experience with. And they all regret that first experience to some degree or another.
Birth control is a lie promulgated by vicious, evil, lesbian feminists.