Disembodied Sex
Contraception and the Reshaping of Sexuality
Juli Loesch Wiley
July 1, 1995
With all the recent obsessing over condoms, with the relentless multimedia drumming and chanting over global population control, with the incessant newspaper-magazine-radio-TV drooling over the sexual option smorgasbord, people at large, people plugged into the mass culture, have heard few discordant notes about the sexual revolution-and perhaps only one. Namely, that "the Pope" is against it. And, especially maddening to the Socially Responsible sector, "the Pope" is even for some reason bizarrely, unaccountably, opposed to what even most churches agree is the best thing since One-a-Day vitamins: contraception. Secular journalists seem to want us to assume that a comprehensive critique of the agenda and the paraphernalia of the sexual revolution is an idiosyncrasy of "the Pope" alone. They are unaware that such opposition is only the latest expression of the continuous Judeo-Christian concern for sexual integrity going back to the Patristic Age, going back in fact to Genesis. Neither do such journalists bother to explain, even superficially, the rationale for the traditional Christian teaching against contraception. A Washington Post columnist recently flicked it aside with one word-"ideological"-without one further reference to idea or logic. The implication is that there are no reasons for the historic Christian position: nothing worth examining, nothing even worth refuting. Those believers who do accept the traditional teaching-mostly Catholics, and a minority of them at that-accept it on faith alone, the poor unthinking sheep, and that's that. Yet the sexual revolution-the disjointing and dismembering of human sexuality into a heap of fragments to be rearranged again in any shape at will-rests upon certain underlying assumptions ...
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