Today I read an article from Catholic Vote that summarized a Pew poll. It noted nearly at the end that two thirds of Trump supporters believe that contraceptives are good for society, while ninety three percent of Biden supporters say the same.
I have to express my disturbance, rather than my surprise; I’m not surprised, simply disappointed. Sexual gratification doesn’t exist for its own sake. It exists to promote procreation. Without that purpose, it wouldn’t exist, and to act otherwise —whether we believe it or not— is bad for society and the individual. It shouldn’t be slaked in just any way, because that would give rise to endless vices. It’s necessary for us to respect its natural purpose when we act on the impulse, and probably even more important that —being rational animals— we practice some self-control and restraint. It’s no coincidence that past cases of “sexual liberation” have given way to normalizing ever-more destructive behaviors in society.
Instead, we live in an age where almost everyone tries to give free reign (sic) to this passion, if not the others, too. At the same time, some try to constrain it with sophistic loopholes that don’t work even as roadblocks in the documented decline. Such prevalence suggests to me there’s a “contraceptive platform” lying underneath the situation: we have to accept contraception as a social reality and do “the best” with it. The problem, then, is that “the best” will have to be libertinism in the end, with an advancement of vice. And those who say it won’t be like that don’t line up with this technology’s very logic: our most natural desires’ purpose doesn’t deserve our respect. Why in the world take the other aspects of our design into account? Aberrations will progress, unless we reject the premise justifying the decision to permit such lack of consideration for our sexuality.
What say you?