Complete and utter bravo sierra. I hate to break this to you, but intimacy with my wife is better after 14 years of marriage, even though her tubes are tied, than it was a dozen year ago when she was still fertile. There is absolutely nothing sterile about our love life, or our family life.
"Making love" is intercourse that's open to new life. It says, "Our love is so great that it becomes tangible, bringing forth new life."
I guess women should all stop at menapause then. After that it's not making love anymore, it's sterile sex. Gads, and I'll bet you don't even see your own hubris.
I'm aware of this natural condition, and natural sterility, which is why I qualified my original statement with the words, "deliberately chosen," or something like that.