Sexual relations during pregnancy

[Riley259]

The Church feels very strongly about any sexual relations between a married couple being always open to life. Does anyone know if the Church has talked about sexual relations during pregnancy. On the surface, sexual relations at this time wouldn’t be open to life because if the woman is already pregnant, she couldn’t possible become pregnant again during that period. How does the Church connect Her mandate to always be open to life with sexual relations during pregnancy? Is it forbidden or is this just an exception. Does anyone know?

 

[Mirror_Mirror]

The Church feels very strongly about any sexual relations between a married couple being always open to life. Does anyone know if the Church has talked about sexual relations during pregnancy. On the surface, sexual relations at this time wouldn’t be open to life because if the woman is already pregnant, she couldn’t possible become pregnant again during that period. How does the Church connect Her mandate to always be open to life with sexual relations during pregnancy? Is it forbidden or is this just an exception. Does anyone know?

Go for it!

Honestly that is what the Church teaches.

 

[teachccd]

Same as post-menopausal women. Sex is for procreation and conjugal love of the spouses. Your intent is open for life even if your wife is expecting. Those 28 days a month that your wife is not fertile will still allow for intercourse. As long as there are no artificial means to prevent birth, the gift of married sex is good until death do you part… God Bless…teachccd

 

[1ke]

The Church feels very strongly about any sexual relations between a married couple being always open to life. Does anyone know if the Church has talked about sexual relations during pregnancy. On the surface, sexual relations at this time wouldn’t be open to life because if the woman is already pregnant, she couldn’t possible become pregnant again during that period. How does the Church connect Her mandate to always be open to life with sexual relations during pregnancy? Is it forbidden or is this just an exception. Does anyone know?

Every act of unaltered intercourse is “open to life”, or more specifically “objectively procreative”. Because the woman is already pregnant it does not subjectively result in conception. But, objectively the act is a procreative one because it is as God designed it and unaltered by the couple in any way. It is unitive and procreative.

The Church has no teaching against any married couple having intercourse at any specific time-- pregnant, post-menopausal, etc. What the church does teach is that ever act must be objectively unitive and procreative.

What you have described violates neither the procreative or the unitive element.

 

[Seatuck]

The Church feels very strongly about any sexual relations between a married couple being always open to life. Does anyone know if the Church has talked about sexual relations during pregnancy. On the surface, sexual relations at this time wouldn’t be open to life because if the woman is already pregnant, she couldn’t possible become pregnant again during that period. How does the Church connect Her mandate to always be open to life with sexual relations during pregnancy? Is it forbidden or is this just an exception. Does anyone know?

The marital act itself needs to be “open to life”. As long as it is there is no problem with sexual relations in marriage during pregnancy or any other infertile period.

 

[CCM08]

If you read the ECF’s they were strongly opposed to sexual relations during pregnancy. Of course the ECF’s would also be strongly opposed to the prevailing attitudes on sex in modern soceity and have been accused of being “anti-sex.” Don’t really have a personal opinion on sex during pregnancy. If my wife wants to, well let’s just say I’m not any good at telling her no,

 

[Cari]

If you read the ECF’s they were strongly opposed to sexual relations during pregnancy.

Interesting! Could you provide links to that?

 

[teachccd]

If you read the ECF’s they were strongly opposed to sexual relations during pregnancy. Of course the ECF’s would also be strongly opposed to the prevailing attitudes on sex in modern soceity and have been accused of being “anti-sex.” Don’t really have a personal opinion on sex during pregnancy. If my wife wants to, well let’s just say I’m not any good at telling her no,

Saint Augustine taught that the pleasure received during normal relations between a husband and his wife were sinful. We’ve moved from that thinking a bit, I would hope. So these pious opinions were just that…teachccd