Human Sexuality 

   “If sex does not mount to heaven, it descends into hell.  There is no such thing as giving the body without giving the soul.” (Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen) 

   Sex has often been called the “marital act” and so it was intended to be.  It is one of the greatest gifts God has bestowed upon us when properly integrated into a sacramental marriage.  However, it is also one of the quickest ways to hell when used as it is often used in today’s society.

   The giving of one’s body to another is arguably the most intimate of all human interactions.  “That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two become one body.” (Gen 2: 24).  Marital sex brings a husband and wife together in ways that nothing else can; the two, in fact, become one body as they give themselves totally to each other.  The two become one body in another sense as well, participating with God’s plan to create new life.  Sadly, in the view of many, that new life, that baby, is now considered an inconvenience, something to be destroyed at will; murder of the most innocent of all.

   There has always been pre-marital and extra-marital sex, as well as numerous perversions of the act.  However, these things were never seen as a moral good, but as sinful, a betrayal of it’s true purpose.  Regardless of what society would say, that fact hasn’t changed, even though it is now seen as nothing more than a pleasurable activity; just a means to satisfy one’s urges.

   When sex is taken out of the marital relationship it becomes something that it was never intended to be; it becomes sinful.  No amount of social acceptance, no claim to a “right” to free sex can change that fact.