The natural flow of human life, should be always welcomed to flow and surge naturally and unhindered.
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Originally Posted by sdbg  Sex is better than drugs. If you're careful with it, there are no bad side effects. I was raised Catholic, but I think the ban against birth control is stupid and totally out of step with our current world. The earth is already overpopulated. Sex is natural and humans have an instinctual need to mate. It only makes sense to me to use condoms. I have turned away from religion because of this stupid kind of brainwashing that makes people ashamed of being human and enjoying this very basic need. I'm still deprogramming all the negative bullshit that has hung me up for decades. |
Sure, sex can be a bit like some habit-forming but safe "drug." People have historically been "addicted" to it, perhaps that's partly how there came to be some 6.7 billion of us now upon the planet.
The Catholic position makes some sense, I agree that human life is sacred and we ought not to interfere with its creation, nor to profane sex by denying the prospect of "overflowing" love to allow the possibility of additional people coming to life. But the Catholic position is too inconsistant. Somebody at work said that rhythm seeks to prevent human life, so shouldn't it be discouraged as well? That's long been more my position. So "artificial" methods have those nasty side-effects. But the world balks and says that rhythm requires too much will-power. Well doesn't that leave discussing the virtues of the "no method" method of "family planning?" Welcoming families everywhere to grow naturally, the natural flow of human life unhindered.
The world doesn't have too many people. Most everywhere we can look, there can be found, or made, lots more room for lots more people.
Many Catholics who believe hindering the natural procreative aspect of sex, to be wrong, also believe artificial assistance of infertility problems, to be against God's will. I disagree partly. They have a point, but it's a virtue to promote human life, and the best I can tell, even "test tube" babies enjoy living as well. I don't see that people are obligated to resort to "artificial" infertility assistance, as God could obviously heal infertility problems no fault of the people themselves. But I just don't see how we are prohibitted morally, from some reasonable level of "artificial" treatment of infertility problems, as wouldn't such medical care be consistant also, with choosing life? (See Deut. 30:19.) But as there are moral problems with suspected "abortifacient" methods of "birth control," there's also moral problems with "designer babies" or "selective reductions" or abandoning embryos to be forgotten in deep-freeze storage as well. Some people have expressed interest in adopting "snowflake" babies, as I believe they should. Because of various moral quandries of trying to "play God," there's much elegance and beauty in encouraging mainly the old, tried and true, "natural" method of conceiving babies.
Yes, sex is natural, and humans have an instinctual need to mate. But human population growth is beautiful as it allows all the more people to experience life, and so sex in its proper unselfish procreative context is beautiful as well, and the numbers of people enjoying it and producing babies, should be welcome to rise naturally unhindered. The natural remedy for powerful human reproductive urges is of course, pregnancy. The natural remedy for pregnancy is childbirth. By allowing the world to naturally populate denser and denser with people, all the more people can experience life, and people may go on enjoying having their progeny. It's God who commanded people to Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, so it's then God's responsibility to determine how populous he would make us to become, not ours. To try to "control" our birthrates, is just another evil example of humans trying to "play God," that is forbidden and should still be thought of as taboo, or at the very least, impractical and contrary to basic freedom.
I don't believe humans should be ashamed to be human and to be procreating naturally-growing families. People should be welcome to enjoy having all the children they were meant to have, no matter where they live, whether in the spacious countryside, or in the huge megacities perhaps growing larger and closer together. Urbanize the planet to whatever extent needed. People in big cities have their need for sexual relief too, and children are glad to come alive, even if into already big families, or into overcrowded cities or shantytowns. I have long advocated large families, and more people marrying young too, and reject the trendy fallacy that humans should use any means of nasty, shoddy, anti-life "birth control," that we were never designed to use.
