Or having sex only when the woman is infertile, which is NFP
Again, NFP is NOT sexual abstinence. Sexual abstinence is sexual abstinence. NFP is timing your sexual act when the woman is not fertile, and is indeed a sexual practice.
LOL. I guess you are not Catholic.
No, contraception is the intentional prevention of conception or impregnation through the use of various devices, agents, drugs, sexual practices, or surgical procedures.
I’ve explained this on another thread. Sure, if you were having sex and the reason and intent of that particular sex act were to avoid pregnancy, then there would be a problem. But as I have said elsewhere, no one on the face of this earth thinks that having sex, even while infertile, is going to decrease their chance of getting pregnant. So no-one is going to have sex for the sake of avoiding pregnancy. The intention of avoiding children is not connected to the act of sex, it is connected to the abstinance.
No because you can’t conceive… you have to be able to conceive for Contraception to be possible.
Sexual practices are things that happen DURING sex. That is why its a ‘practice’ it requires an action. So for it for a sexual practice to be contraception it would have to be a sterilizing action WHILE you are having sex. Having sex while you are infertile is not a positive action preventing conception… it is a positive action to conception, its just not currently possible for it to occur.
It is not always wrong according to either Fr. Vincent Serpa or the Vatican.
Source: forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=475359&highlight=spouse+contraception+sin
Contraception has nothing to do about being natural vs. artificial. If you are having sex and doing something to avoid pregnancy, then that is contraception. Artificial Birth Control and Natural Birth Control are another matter, but both are contraceptives. The inherent definition of contraceptives is avoiding pregnancy, not if its artificial method or not.
Highlighted on mine. My question to you is are you on this earth? Because every person who uses NFP to determine the infertile period does believe that they are decreasing the chances of getting pregnant. We are only kidding ourselves if we are not. It is even in the materials handed out to you by your NFP instructor. I know, I’ve paid for and attended one. And our intention was not to get pregnant right away, because we just had a son.
You are able to concieve. If you are not able to concieve then you are sterile or menopausal. A woman’s cycle doesn’t remove their ability to concieve.
Taking temperatures, updating a chart, and checking for mucus isn’t an action?
Don’t define terms to suit your own needs. Sexual practice is anything you do in relation to having sex, not just what you do during the act. Besides, you don’t take pills while you are having sex, so it must be okay then?
Let us all use the terms as the Catholic Church and Catholic Theology uses them.
It does not “hinder” conception.
You need to go back to biology 101 if you think that, or perhaps consult an MD. A normal woman is fertile and able to conceive for a 24 - 48 hour period in her “normal” cycle. (now obviously the cycle is unique to each woman). If you use the logic that a woman from the time she starts her menstrual period to the time she is menopausal is “able to conceive” followed by the logic that the act of avoiding sex constitutes contraception, than ANY night you do not have conjugal relations from the time you are married to the time of menopause constitutes contraceptive actions. That does not sound reasonable to me.
Last time I checked you didn’t do those things while in the middle of a sex act. Nor do you use those items to make the act its self sterile.
If your definition of “sexual practice” is every act, action, or inaction in relation to the conjugal act, then any sexual thought you have about your wife during any period she is infertile would constitute contraception. That also does not sound reasonable. Now if that is the definition you want to go with, I can’t tell you otherwise. I am talking about having sex or not having it. This is where the moral or immoral actions take in regards to contraception take place or don’t.
