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To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
I do not believe that Marital enjoyment of Oral Foreplay prior to Sexual Procreation is any kind of Sin, any more than manual foreplay prior to Sexual Procreation is any kind of Sin.

And if said foreplay does not lead to Procreation...?

266 posted on 08/01/2002 12:06:44 AM PDT by Starwind
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To: Starwind; Polycarp
And if said foreplay does not lead to Procreation...?

Under what conditions?

At this point, we get into mind-reading. The Church is not an institution devoted to mind-reading, but rather the teaching of Moral Instruction.

Aside from Abortifacients which as always wrong, the core teaching seems to me to be, "Christian Couples should not be engaged in a Contra-Conception Morality". If a Marital Couple are enjoying some physical intimacy one night, and decide for whatever reason to NOT fully-consummate (maybe she has a "head-ache" for all I know), I don't see any possible "problem" with that.

On the other hand, if a Marital Couple are deliberately using "foreplay" to avoid procreation on a continuing basis, then we are outside of a pure question of "Christian Liberty" and into a question of "Contraceptive Mentality". I don't propose to read their minds, but I will point out that a contraceptive mentality is Immoral.

268 posted on 08/01/2002 12:53:59 AM PDT by OrthodoxPresbyterian
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