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Sexuality:
Modern View
vs.
Christian View
Babies: Blessings or Burdens?
World Population
Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects,
The 1998 Revision; and estimates by the Population Reference Bureau
20
20
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19
19
19
19
19
40
30
20
10
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90
80
70
60
50
-4
-3
-2
-1
-0
-9
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-7
-6
-5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
Total Fertility Rate
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
God is Love
Male and Female
He Created Them
“It is not good that man should be alone.”
(Gen. 2:18)
The Importance of
Marriage
Casual, Recreational Sex
Accidental Pregnancy
Contraception
Contribution?
Quiz (check one)
Q: What contributed the most
good to our culture in the last
half century?
 contraceptives
 cars
 computers
 Ipods
Early Predictions
• Control the
population crisis
• Reduce the
number of unwed
pregnancies and
abortions
• Improve marriages
Teen Sex Practices
• In 2003, 62 percent of 12th graders had
had sexual intercourse.
• Data about teens’ sexual experiences
other than intercourse are more limited.
In 1995,
– 53 percent of teen males aged 15-19 said
they had been masturbated by a female
– 49 percent had received oral sex;
– 39 percent had given oral sex;
– 11 percent had engaged in anal sex.
Estimated Annual
New Cases of STDS
0
1
2
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5
6
Chlamydia
Gonorrhea
Syphillis
Herpes
Human Papilloma Virus
Hepatitis B
Trichomaniasis
HIV
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation and American Social Service
Health Association: Sexually Transmitted Diseases in America, 1998
Percentage of out of wedlock births
Out of Wedlock Births
80
70
60
50
White
Black
All Births
40
30
20
10
0
1960
1975
1990
1995
1997
2003
Children in Poverty, 2000
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
First Marriage
Second (+)
Marriage
Divorced
Cohabitation
Separated
Never Married
Abortions
Never Married
Married
19%
63%
Divorced
Separated
11%
1% 6%
Widowed
Contraception Leads to
Abortion
“In some critical respects abortion is of the same
character as the decision to use contraception.... For
two decades of economic and social developments,
people have organized intimate relationships and
made choices that define their views of themselves
and their places in society, in reliance on the
availability of abortion in the event that
contraception should fail.”
United State Supreme Court
Planned Parenthood vs. Casey (1992)
Contraceptives as
Abortifacients
The contraceptive pill works in three ways:
•Prevents ovulation
•Prevents sperm from meeting
egg
•As an abortifacient — prevents
fertilized ovum from implanting
in uterine wall.
Cohabitation and
Divorce
Couples now live together before marriage and split up after marriage!
(per 1,000 married women)
Divorces
Divorce Rates
25
20
15
10
5
0
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1965
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1991
Contraception’s Bad
Consequences
 facilitates sex outside of marriage
 increases incidence of sexually
transmitted diseases
 leads to unwanted pregnancy and
single parenthood
 causes and leads to abortion
 contributes to divorce
 contributes to social chaos
Pope Paul VI’s Predictions
• general lowering
of morality
• less respect for
women
• coercive control by
governments over
sexuality
• bodies become
machines
(Humanae Vitae 17)
Oppressive Governments
and Population Control
Test Tube Babies
designer
genes
Humanae Vitae
Catholics and
Contraception
Catholics 1960:
66% did NOT contracept
66%
Catholics 1995:
80% contracept
80%
Philippine Bishops Apologize
It is said that when seeking ways of
regulating births, only 5% of you consult
God. In the face of this unfortunate fact, we
your pastors have been remiss: how few are
there among you whom we have reached.
There have been some couples eager to
share their expertise and values on birth
regulation with others. They did not receive
adequate support from their priests. We did
not give them due attention, believing then
this ministry consisted merely of imparting a
technique best left to married couples.
Philippine Bishops Apologize
Only recently have we discovered how deep
your yearning is for God to be present in
your married lives. But we did not know then
how to help you discover God’s presence
and activity in your mission of Christian
parenting. Afflicted with doubts about
alternatives to contraceptive technology, we
abandoned you to your confused and lonely
consciences with a lame excuse: “follow
what your conscience tells you.” How little
we realized that it was our consciences that
needed to be formed first. A greater concern
would have led us to discover that religious
hunger in you.
Reasons to condemn
Contraception
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a violation of the good of a
woman’s physical and
psychological health
an impediment to the total
self-giving of spousal love
a rejection of God as Creator
of new life
Fertility is a Great Good
Violation of Physical
Health
Common Side-Effects
• increased irritability
• increased propensity
to depression
• weight gain
• reduced sex drive
Dismissing Side Effects
Dr. Edris Rice-Wray, a faculty member of the Puerto Rico
Medical School and medical director of the Puerto Rico
Family Planning Association, was in charge of the trials.
After a year of tests, Dr. Rice-Wray reported good news to
Pincus. The Pill was 100% effective when taken properly.
She also informed him that 17% of the women in the study
complained of nausea, dizziness, headaches, stomach pain
and vomiting. So serious and sustained were the reactions
that Rice-Wray told Pincus that a 10-milligram dose of
Enovid caused "too many side reactions to be generally
acceptable."
Dismissing Side Effects
Rock and Pincus quickly dismissed Rice-Wray's
conclusions. Their patients in Boston had experienced far
fewer negative reactions, and they believed many of the
complaints were psychosomatic. The men also felt that
problems such as bloating and nausea were minor
compared to the contraceptive benefits of the drug.
Although three women died while participating in the trials,
no investigation was conducted to see if the Pill had caused
the young women's deaths. Confident in the safety of the
Pill, Pincus and Rock took no action to assess the root
cause of the side effects.
Newswithviews.com 27 Sept 2004
"SEXY" CONTRACEPTIVE PATCH
FATALITY RATE REVEALED
17 women between the ages of 17
and 30 have died since release of
the "sexy" patch in 2002. These
documents also revealed that 21
additional life threatening
conditions have been found
including: heart attacks, blood
clots and strokes.
An Insult to Women
Monkeys and Contraception
The T-Shirt Tests
27may05
Contraceptive may kill libido
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When women on the Pill were tested, levels of a chemical
which wipes out testosterone were found to be seven times
higher than in those who had never taken it.
Most worryingly, even those who were not on the Pill, but
had taken it in the past, had levels up to four times higher
than those who had never used it.
Past studies had suggested taking the Pill could dampen a
woman's sexual desire, but that if she came off it, her libido
would return within a month.
Dr Goldstein, former director of the Institute for Sexual
Medicine at Boston University, Massachusetts, said that while
his research seemed to suggest the effects could be
permanent, more investigations were needed.
Sexual Chemistry
FOR YEARS, PROZAC AND THE PILL HAVE
GIVEN WOMEN EMOTIONAL STABILITY
AND SEXUAL FREEDOM. BUT NEW
RESEARCH SUGGESTS THESE DRUGS
CAN NEGATIVELY AFFECT EVERYTHING
FROM OUR SEX DRIVE TO OUR CHOICE
OF A MATE. RACHAEL COMBE
INVESTIGATES
16 Dec 1998
The magic of
sexual attraction
They say female chemical messengers known as
pheromones may help dupe men into thinking
plain women are more attractive and beautiful
women are less attractive than they actually are.
Pheromones - the colourless, odourless chemical
signals given off by the body - are thought to affect
behaviour in both animals and humans at a subconscious level.
10 July 2004
Pollution 'changes sex of fish'
A third of male fish in British rivers are in the
process of changing sex due to pollution in human
sewage, research by the Environment Agency
suggests.
A survey of 1,500 fish at 50 river sites found more
than a third of males displayed female characteristics.
Hormones in the sewage, including those produced
by the female contraceptive pill, are thought to be the
main cause.
The agency says the problem could damage fish
populations by reducing their ability to reproduce.
Impediment to Total
Self-Giving
Babies are Bonding
God Creates Every
Human Soul
Contraceptive Thwarts
God’s Life-Giving power
Responsible Parenting
Natural Family Planning
Signs of fertility • fertile mucus
• rise in temperature
• change in cervix
Effectiveness of NFP
“…pregnancy rates [of couples using NFP] have depended
on the motivation of couples. Increasingly studies show
that rates equivalent to those with other contraceptive
methods are readily achieved in the developed and
developing worlds. Indeed, a study of 19,843 poor women
in India had a pregnancy rate approaching zero. Natural
family planning is cheap, efficient, without side effects,
and may be particularly acceptable to and efficacious
among people in areas of poverty.”
Dr. R. E. J. Ryder
British Medical Journal, Sept. 18, 1993
NFP vs. Contraception
Benefits of NFP
 No bad physical
side-effects
 Requires mutual sacrifice
 Enhances communication
between spouses and
strengthens marriages
 Strengthens couple’s
relationship with God
 No harm to society
Miracle at Cana