I find it pretentious that a bunch of childless, confirmed bachelors would claim sufficient knowledge to determine and hold sway over the reasons, emotions and purposes of sexual activities of adult, cognitively competent, heterosexual couples (acknowledging that whilst sex is a procreative act, its “purpose” is not limited to procreation, accepting that “men” and “women” experiences life is on a level above that of cattle and other animals).

However, I find it plain incredulous that anyone, blessed with cognitive skills and even rudimentary competence, should ignore their own commonsense and subjugate their sexual activities and appetites to the dictates of bunch of (supposed) childless bachelors.

As for me, no condoms here. I had a vasectomy many years ago, after the birth of my second daughter. I can thoroughly recommend it as a procedure which is simple, 100% effective and a lot less intrusive or dangerous than the equivalent for the female.

There are two debates going on here, condoms for the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and condoms as a matter of birth control.
Neither is a topic which should involve any church and
neither is a topic which any church is qualified to determine the outcome of.

Reality Check, you should apply your logic to the Solomon Islands. Go to the CIA World Factbook entry for the Solomons, divide the land area in square meters by the current population. Then take the natural log and divide it by the population growth rate. This will give you the time to standing room only at current growth rates. When I did this the answer was 414 years, hardly infinite resources.

Silly me, I thought the debate was about self control and rational sexual responsibility, but, go those Bonobos - who said Darwin was wrong, plenty of proof about less developed 'species' still awaiting maturity...

Col Rouge

Thanks for your post

Cheers
Kay

Reality Check, those bonobos evolved to be smart enough to understand that sex is natural, normal and enjoyable and great
for conflict resolution!

Whats more they have no need to wear spikey chains or to whip themselves like Opus Dei do for instance, so the question arises -
who are the smarter ones? :)

Who cares.