Sexual Dilemma

[SpiritIsWilling]

In my health class my teacher told us of one of her friends who was having sex with her husband but unable to get pregnant.

When she went to the doctor and they ran some tests, it was found her body had a certain reaction to the sperm and it killed it off as it entered the body.

She didn’t go into specifics but mentioned that the disorder wasn’t treatable and the lady wouldn’t ever get to have children.

My question is this: Would this lady still be allowed to morally have sex even though there is no chance of procreation?

 

[rlg94086]

Of course. And “no chance” is in respect to her current medical condition. I had some friends who had serious fertility problems, but were successful in having a child. Years later (over ten years), they had a child without trying (and no I don’t mean without sex ).

I don’t know if her medical condition could or would change, but none of us knows what God has in store for her.

God bless,

Robert

SpiritIsWilling:

In my health class my teacher told us of one of her friends who was having sex with her husband but unable to get pregnant.

When she went to the doctor and they ran some tests, it was found her body had a certain reaction to the sperm and it killed it off as it entered the body.

She didn’t go into specifics but mentioned that the disorder wasn’t treatable and the lady wouldn’t ever get to have children.

My question is this: Would this lady still be allowed to morally have sex even though there is no chance of procreation?

 

[Dr.Colossus]

It sounds like they are open to the possibilty of children and certainly are not intending to thwart reproduction. That is all the Church requires of a married couple to licitly engage in the marital act.

 

[rlg94086]

Precisely. And, I might add that if I were in their same predicament, I would add some prayer to the situation. We certainly can not count on them, but miracles do happen. Otherwise, no saints would have been canonized!
Dr. Colossus:

It sounds like they are open to the possibilty of children and certainly are not intending to thwart reproduction. That is all the Church requires of a married couple to licitly engage in the marital act.

 

[1ke]

SpiritIsWilling:

My question is this: Would this lady still be allowed to morally have sex even though there is no chance of procreation?

Yes.

The sex act remains objectively procreative (and therefore ordered as God created it) because it is in no way altered by the spouses.