On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 08:12:43 -0400, "JimH" wrote:


"thunder" wrote in message
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On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 20:20:50 -0400, JimH wrote:


With all due respect John, you are wrong. The Catholic Church never
condoned oral sex.

The sole purpose of sex according to the Church is procreation, with
birth
control during a woman's period.

I'm not sure that is totally accurate. Humanae Vitae requires that sexual
intercourse be open to life, precluding contraception, but I don't believe
it requires all sexual intercourse to be for procreation. It's about
giving one's all to a marriage, not giving everything but one's fertility.
It is my understanding, oral stimulation, as foreplay, is perfectly
acceptable in a marriage.



You are perhaps correct. And I should have said that abstention from sex
prior to a woman's period is the Church's idea of birth control.


The Church condones the 'rhythm method' as an acceptable method of birth
control.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."