Is lust the only reason people contracept?

[pegrok]

I never quite understand why some Catholics try to make NFP into something spiritual like prayer. We only used NFP but I never thought of it as something spiritual. It’s basically kind of a loop hole. You aren’t doing anything unnatural to stop pregnancy. You just don’t happen to be likely to get pregnant during the infertile times. But to do more than the minimum without sinning, mature Christians should be prayerful about whether they should accept another child. But we are given a free will to make what we consider to be wise decisions (as long as they aren’t sinful). In the Bible God blessed people with children. God sees children as a blessing and so should we. In primitive cultures, natural breast feeding does space children 2 to 4 years apart, so I think that we should try to be prudent about not having them too close together. Also, I would say that natural sexual desire (or lust?) is not bad. It is a big part of why we have sex whether we use NFP or not. People are trying to avoid the difficulties that go along with parenting by using NFP or contraception. I think children are a blessing in the long run, but it is hard work. People try to avoid what they consider to be suffering. Again that is why we should pray about it and use our best judgement.

 

[coralewisjr]

Steve Andersen:

It does seem that they want it both ways

but this whole discussion specualting about the motives of others seems kinda strange
like some of the other “reproductive” posts around here it seems almost prurient

Why should we care if it is “only about lust” for some other person ? (clearly it’s not IMHO but that is neither here nor there)

shouldn’t we worry about our own motivations first?

Steve,
I have a bad habit of starting threads and not wording things the way I should. You’re right that we should be worrying more about our own motives than about others’. I was very curious and this thread is answering some of my questions about why married couples contracept.

my Mother my Confidence,
Corinne