“The ultimate purpose of the sex faculty is a tremendously important good [new human life]; and precisely because this ultimate perfective good is not so much a good of the individual as it is good of the human race, God has attached the most vehement of all sense pleasures. There- fore to set this faculty in motion, to cull the pleasure and then positively and deliberately to pre- vent conception, to destroy the ultimate good for which alone the faculty exists, is a foul perversion, and intrinsically disordered use of the faculty, a frustration of nature in the matter of the utmost moment.”
When it comes to sex, the world’s mantra is basically, “Copulate because it is natural, but for God’s sake don’t do it naturally because if you do it might have natural consequences, and that’s the last thing we want.” For me the Church’s stance on contraception has always seemed self-evidently right. Consequently, when the Church started to tear herself apart over this issue in the seventies, it represented a very serious personal spiritual crisis. I could not see how I could remain a Catholic if the Church was to endorse artificial contraception, however nuanced the change. How could I continue to believe that the Church was infallible in matters of faith and morals when she had just endorsed what was self-evidently depraved - not to mention change 2,000 years of constant teaching? What next - could we be taught that there were four persons in the Godhead, instead of three?
Natural law is not rocket science. It is what tells us that we must enjoy God’s gifts in accordance with their Creator’s plan. It’s what informs us that tomatoes need to be grown in sunshine and mushrooms in deep shade. Go against the natural law in these examples and you will be lucky to grow a few sickly small tomatoes, and mushrooms simply refuse to grow in sunshine. Notwithstanding the bizarre mental contortions of modern theologians, the statement that the primary purpose of sex in its Creator’s plan is the conception of new life is no more than a statement of the obvious. Thus to artificially and violently separate sex from its divine purpose in the manner that artificial contraception does is a gross violation of natural law. It is consequently inconceivable that there will not be unpleasant knock-on effects, some fore- seeable, yet others, further down the line, unforeseen.
One of the more bizarre delusions of modern man is that one may ignore natural law without consequences. Modern man is like a farmer who disposes of his toxic waste by pouring it down a well. Six weeks later he is wondering why his crops and pasture are looking sickly and wasted.
One of the more bizarre delusions of modern man is that one may ignore natural law without consequences. Modern man is like a farmer who disposes of his toxic waste by pouring it down a well. Six weeks later he is wondering why his crops and pasture are looking sickly and wasted. Three months later he is struggling to understand why his livestock are unhealthy and dying. A year later he is alarmed to find his children and family are undernourished and sickly. Yet he is too short-sighted (or perhaps too deeply in denial) to trace his woes back to having poisoned the well a year ago. Artificial contraception similarly poisons the well of human relationships at their very profoundest level.
Another apposite analogy is the gift of eating. The pleasure in eating is designed in our loving creator’s plan to ensure that we nourish our bodies. Like sex it is intended to serve life. Like sex it also has an important communal dimension: to paraphrase the late Fr Peyton, the family that eats together, stays together. My hobbies include messing about in the kitchen, so I would be the very last person to suggest that one should not eat for pleasure. Nevertheless, the moment you consciously, intentionally, carelessly, artificially separates the delights of eating from its primary purpose of nourishing the body, you are in deep trouble. First, gluttony will become the norm rather than the exception. Why not be a glutton if the sole purpose of eating is pleasure? Next down the line is obesity. Further down the line: ill health, leading to reduced economic activity, benefit dependency, and finally premature death.
Similarly, when you separate sex from its Creator’s primary purpose the consequences are equally catastrophic. The first casualty is the way the generality of men at the level of their subconscious think about their sexuality. We should never underestimate the subconscious. If a man at the level of his subconscious believes that a rose bush is a man-eating tiger, he will break out in a sweat of fear when he passes a rose bush, no matter how much he knows at the conscious level that this is absurd.
Psychologists allegedly have a diagnostic tool: they hold up a word on a flash card and the patient is instructed to respond with the first word that comes into his head. The idea is that by denying the subject the time to reflect, his response will reveal something of his subconscious. I would content that if one holds up the word “sex” on a flash card, the response that you would illicit from the non-contracepting man would be revealingly different from that of the contracepting man. The non-contracepting man’s subconscious would throw up words like: love, romance, marriage, family, spouse, children, tenderness, faithfulness, commitment, etc. The contraception man will more likely respond with words like fun, relationships, nudity, safe-sex, condoms, girly magazines, porn, Saturday night out, red-light district, lapdancer, etc.
This sea-change in the subconscious was brought home to me forcefully twenty-five years ago when I was talking about abortion to group of six-formers. Come question time, one young fellow posed the following question, “What you are talking about is human rights, the rights of the unborn, but conflicting human rights have to be balanced; what about my right to a worry-free sex life?” Now, putting aside the fact that what he actually meant was a responsibility free sex life (which by definition would be a dehumanised sex life), my contention is that no-one who had not embraced artificial contraception as normal at the level of their sub-conscious could have conceived such a question, let alone formulated and posed it.
Modern science has revealed to us that human life starts at the moment of conception. Thus abortion is murder. However, the early Christians and the Fathers of the Church did not possess this knowledge yet they still taught that abortion was a grave sin. Why? For the simple reason that it violates the same moral principle as artificial contraception, namely: that one may never enjoy the pleasure of a natural act, whilst artificially divorcing the act from the purpose for which God designed the act, and that is the reason that God attached pleasure to the act in the first place.
Another shoot from the sick root of contraception is euthanasia. Society in general, and the medical profession and politicians in particular, having grown hardened to killing the innocent and helpless, it was but a small dolly step to lowering the safeguards against euthanasia.
The Romans allegedly would gorge themselves and then deliberately vomit in order to continue gorging themselves. They were artificially divorcing the pleasure of eating from the act’s God given purpose, namely to nourish the body. Most people understand that behaviour to be immoral and even offensive. Artificial contraception does to sex what this disgusting Roman practice did to eating: takes the pleasure, while artificially rejecting the very purpose for which God made the act pleasurable.
One of the first deformed shoots to spring from the rotten root of artificial contraception was feminism. Main stream feminists (there were one or two honourable exceptions) believe that in order to enjoy all the perks that men (i.e. the womb-less half of humanity) allegedly enjoy, woman had to be liberated from the vocation of the womb. They had in effect to be de-wombed at will. Thus the feminists embraced contraception with gusto. But having accepted at the level of our sub-conscious that the primary purpose of sex was fun, not only did they have a right to be sterile they also had a right to a sex-life. And as this newly discovered human right to a sex-life now had nothing to do with child bearing it quickly became wrong, absurd even, to restrict it to marriage - what possible logical reason could their be for doing so? Consequently we had a world wide explosion of sexual activity in circumstances that previous generation would have regarded as irresponsible and gravely immoral. The cost of that, because contraception is neither infallible nor indeed always used, was an explosion in unwanted pregnancies.
But wait a minute, if sex has nothing to do with babies, and I have a human right to a sterile worry-free sex-life, surely this thing growing in my womb is parasitical - it has no right to be there, so do I not have a right to get rid of it? Yes, of course you do - based on your premises. Hence the next sick shoot from the rotten root of contraception is abortionism. There is no recorded instant of a society that has embraces contraception that has not legalising abortion a few years down the line. Contraception demands legalised abortion. Necessity is the mother of invention and just as our pagan forefathers, who worshipped the gods of lust, had to institute child sacrifice to deal with the unwanted results of their creed, so our new post-Christian pagans had to introduce abortion to deal with the unwanted results of their artificial contraception creed. One of the most revealing statistics in the UK is that, in spite of butchering children by abortion at the rate of over 600 a day, the live birth rate remained fairly steady, which demonstrates that legalised abortion has created its own clientele. Or put another way: abortion deals with a problem that did not exist before we embraced artificial contraception.
Another shoot from the sick root of contraception is euthanasia. Society in general, and the medical profession and politicians in particular, having grown hardened to killing the innocent and helpless, it was but a small dolly step to lowering the safeguards against euthanasia. The medical profession was soon busy killing handicapped children by starvation and dehydration, whilst politicians were busy legislating for living wills etc.
Nature abhors a vacuum: artificial contraception, having created this new commodity called a “sex life”, which is now totally divorced by artificial contraception in the human sub-conscious from child bearing, family and marriage; it was only a matter of time before a new industry was spawned to cater for this new consumer demand. On cue, a young college student and budding entrepreneur, Hugh Hefner, started what was to become the Playboy Empire which in turn further stoked the sexual revolution of the 1960’s that had been kick started by artificial contraception. The sex industry is but one more poisoned shoot from the contraception root.
And while Hugh Hefner was building his empire, other entrepreneurs on cue were building the Internet. Now the porn industry is but a mouse click away. The down- ward slide of our society was thus greatly accelerated by the explosion of pornography which has weakened the natural romantic attraction between young people and replaced it with unbridled selfish sexual gratification, and further deadened the natural revulsion to sexual perversion.
Those Protestants, and indeed Catholics (not excluding priests and bishops) who have embraced artificial contraception, either overtly or surreptitiously, and who are now wailing and wringing their hands over modern sexual immorality are like men who having mindlessly sawn off the branch on which they were sitting are now complaining bitterly about the ground rushing up to hit them.
With the breakdown of the family there was one more foreseeable outcome: a quantum leap in mindless criminality, especially among the young. Many of our town centres are taken over by gangs of feral youth of both genders, violent, frequently inebriated, foul-mouthed and substance abusing; as mindless as the contracepting parents who accidentally conceived them.
The next rotten branch to grow from the poisoned root is no-fault divorce. With even children being encouraged to copulate by our new contraception pushing sex- educators, it would be ridiculous to believe that all this extra-marital copulating would confine itself to the unmarried. Soon married men were having affairs all now perceived as risk free because of contraception and abortion. With the new influx of contracepting and aborting “liberated” women in the workplace, having more extra- marital affairs than ever, it was of course necessary to adopt liberal no-fault divorce laws. In this way, the cheating spouses could easily get out of their lifelong marital commitments with zero social stigmas for themselves, but, however, with devastating consequences for millions of innocent children. In some areas of London now, over fifty per cent of the children in primary schools do not have their biological father living at home, indeed many of them are not even living with their first step-father - their mother has flitted from one man to the next in her pursuit of her human right to a worry-free, baby-free sex-life!
Marriage also took a knock from another front. Sexual intercourse in our loving creator’s plan was designed to bind people together. When two virgins first have sexual intercourse they bind to one another with incredible force. But once you are into your second, third or forth relationship sexual intercourse loses that power. Like a piece of used sticky plaster, it can hardly be successfully used twice, and the third application will prove utterly futile. Many of our sex-educated and sexually active young people cannot now marry (in the sense of bind to another for life) even if they desired to - like a piece of used sticky plaster, they have lost the power to bind in that unique way - and barring a miracle of grace, they have tragically lost that beautiful human gift for life!
The destruction of marriage created the situation where there were far more little boys growing up with no strong male role models at home and far more little girls being raised with no father or by step-fathers who are more likely to sexually abuse them. In either case, we had increased the number of male and female homosexuals because we had increased the risk factors for developmental gender confusion and the psycho- social deficits which eventually lead to same-sex attraction. This inevitably led to the drive by the media and government to remove the social stigma from homosexual sodomy. Thus, what started with the artificial uncoupling of sexuality and procreation has now reached yet another unnatural conclusion with the legalization and normalization of same-sex anal copulating. After all, if sex is only about emotional attachments, and not procreation (a premise we swallowed when we legalised artificial contraception) then why not promote homosexuality? It was a small step from here of course to legalising gross child abuse, for how else can one describe the obligation to place children for adoption with a brace of sodomites united (usually fairly briefly) in a sham marriage by nothing more holy than a mutual addiction to using one another’s buttocks as masturbation aids?
The thinking of many about human sexuality was distorted in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s by Alfred Kinsey’s use of false and fraudulent statistics — including his 10% myth concerning the number of homosexuals in the population. His work was based largely on the deviant sexual practices reported by those in prison. His flawed conclusions were not surprising since 86% of convicted child abusers self-identify as being either homosexual or bisexual.
With the breakdown of the family there was one more foreseeable outcome: a quantum leap in mindless criminality, especially among the young. Many of our town centres are now no-go areas after dark for the elderly, lone women and decent young men. They are taken over by gangs of feral youth of both genders, violent, frequently inebriated, foul-mouthed and substance abusing; as mindless as the contracepting parents who accidentally conceived them. Young men are now dying from gratuitous violence in our town centres at a rate higher than they were dying on the battle field fighting the Taliban. Line a hundred young offenders against a wall and you can safely lay odds that not one of them comes from a stable family; they are all the products of broken homes and the non-family families created by artificial contraception. If you are ever unfortunate enough to be mugged, you can almost certainly thank an unmarried mother.
Have we reached the end of the deluge of sewage unleashed by the acceptance of artificial contraception? I very much doubt it.
James Bulger was abducted and murdered in Merseyside on the 12th February, 1993. His killers were two 10-year-old boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson. They had kicked and struck James with bricks, thrown blue modelling paint on the three year old’s face, stoned him with rocks and finally killed him with a ten kilogram iron bar. They then stuffed batteries in the dead toddler’s mouth and left him on a railway line, his head weighted down with rubble in the hope that a passing train would make his death appear to be an accident.
Both young murderers were the product of the broken homes typical of those who have bought the contraception lie. Both fathers had left home in search no doubt of the baby-free sex life which they had been taught was their human right. One mother had had a succession of men in the house in her search of the worry-free sex life promised by the artificial contraception lobby. I doubt if one of the four parents could spell the word “chastity” let alone practise it. The end result: drinking, substance abuse and violence, to numb the eternal frustration that is the inevitable result of seeking the illusory sexual fulfilment promised by the contraception peddlers.
The broken families resulting from the widespread peddling of artificial contraception is especially vicious to the young. Little James Bulger and his two young murderers were all victims of the general breakdown of the family that inevitably followed the widespread acceptance of the contraceptive mentality and its empty promises of a worry free fulfilling sex life for all from pre-puberty to death, whether married or single.
Have we reached the end of the deluge of sewage unleashed by the acceptance of artificial contraception? I very much doubt it. Whilst I have a great deal of sympathy for the prudent Irishman who said that he preferred to prophesise after the event, I am prepared nevertheless to stick my neck out and say that there will be another attempt to legalise incest in the next decade or two.
The age old taboos against incest arise from the fact that children born of such relationships are frequently physically and mentally retarded. But if sexual intercourse has nothing to do with the conception of children, what’s wrong with incest? Further, we now have the technology to detect the mentally and physically retarded in the womb and cull them before they see the light of day. No lesser body than Liberty was campaigning thirty years ago for the decriminalisation of incest. I remember one young spokeswoman for this outfit being asked, “What about the issue of fathers abusing their daughters?” She responded to the effect that if it was consensual it was nobody’s business, if it wasn’t, it should be an issue for the Social Services not the courts. She did not explain why an abusing father should give two hoots for the Social Services if they were not backed up by the courts. This campaign failed at that time because it lacked sufficient public support. The contraceptive mentality needed a little more time to corrupt the collective sub-conscious. But now we have swallowed sodomite adoption, public opinion should prove far more malleable. I have already seen a couple of dramas on television where it was sympathetically revealed that a nice co-habiting couple were actually a brother and sister who had decided to bravely challenge the religious [sic] taboos - the softening up process is already under way. After all, if sex is only about emotional attachments, and not procreation (a premise we swallowed when we legalised artificial contraception) surely incest could be a positive thing?
Once incest is legalised and society has grown used to the idea, there will be a push to legalise paedophilia. It will be called inter-generational sex and sold under the banner of children’s rights. There is already a political party in Holland dedicated to this end. And why not? If I have a right to a sterile sex life, and I am aroused by children, and the child is willing, what has it to do with anyone else? After all, society has already swallowed the idea that if I am aroused by something as disordered as my own gender, that’s fine - even normal. On what possible logical grounds do I discriminate between one person’s sexual disorder and another’s? Not so long ago we had a politician handing out condoms to 11-year-olds. A couple of years ago Boots was handing out the Morning After Pill to any child who asked for it and no questions asked. It is only a matter of time before we see a play on television featuring a teacher sleeping with one of his students, and it will be portrayed as meaningful, deep and consensual - a brave couple breaking the irrational taboos of society. After all, if sex is only about emotional attachments, and not procreation (a premise we swallowed when we legalised artificial contraception) then why not promote paedophilia - what's wrong with an adult and a child being emotionally attached, for heaven’s sake?
The American Psychological Association up until then had listed homosexuality as a personality disorder. It was removed from their list, not as the result of science, less still any advances in psychology, but in response to threats of violence from the sodomite collective – this is what passes for science in the secular liberal asylum.
It is instructive, is it not, that in the media feeding frenzy on the left over Governor Palin’s 17-year-old daughter being pregnant, the objection was not to her having sex outside of marriage, the objection was to her getting pregnant? There you have the corruption of the human sub-conscious by the contraceptive mentality demonstrated in neon letters. A man sleeping with a seventeen year old unmarried child is not a problem, but that she should bear a child! - now there is real evil for you. No other generation since Adam and Eve would regard the conception of new life as anything other that a blessing to be celebrated, yet the contraceptive mentality has reduced it to the ultimate evil.
I have no doubt that sooner or later the laws and taboos banning bestiality will fall. In England the law will simply be ignored, or not enforced. In America someone will challenge the law under the newly discovered constitutional right to privacy. A campaign in the States to achieve this is already under way under the slogan, “If the animal doesn’t mind, what business is it of yours?” Interestingly, the leader of this campaign is the same homosexual thug who led a homosexual mob into the headquarters of the American Psychological Association and threatened to trash the place if they did not remove homosexuality from their list of personality disorders. The American Psychological Association up until then had listed homosexuality as a personality disorder. It was removed from their list, not as the result of science, less still any advances in psychology, but in response to threats of violence from the sodomite collective – this is what passes for science in the secular liberal asylum. It may be of interest to note that the German Nazi Party sprung from the loins of homosexual thugs from the "butch" wing of the homosexual collective.
Since it is only in our maleness and femaleness that we are made in the image and likeness of God, the destruction of the concept of gender is perhaps Satan’s greatest accomplishment. Moreover, since the sacramental marriage of a husband and wife is used to image the relationship of Christ and His Church, even the idea of same-sex ”marriage” is a sacrilege. Therefore I just don’t see how a God of Justice can tolerate such a diabolical mockery of His divinely ordained institution of marriage for very long. The same man to whom our Lord entrusted the Keys to the Kingdom warned us that: “…in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts… ” (2 Peter 3:3).
Today, it is not merely what scholars call the “Sexual State” driving the agenda, but the World Health Organization has now muscled in on the act. World Health Organization (WHO) sexuality education guidance recommending that children under four should receive information about masturbation and their “right to explore gender identities”. They further recommend that children aged 4-6 should be given information about “same-sex relationships” and the “skills” to “consolidate their gender identity”; that children aged 6-9 should be given information about “the positive influence of sexuality on health and wellbeing”; and children aged 9-12 given information about “first sexual experience” and “gender orientation” as well as the “skills” to “Enable children to…make a conscious decision to have sexual experiences or not”.
There are small signs of hope: the secret is reattaching sex and babies as two sides of the same coin in the human sub-conscious. And this may not prove as difficult as it first sounds, for the lie always requires vastly more energy to keep afloat than does the truth.
So is there no hope then? Strangely, I believe there is. Just as the acceptance of one depravity after another in the modern mind stems from a root, the separation of sex and babies in the human subconscious, a state of mind that is the fruit of the promotion of artificial contraception, so the opposite is also true. If you can recreate in the sub-conscious the truth that sex is about babies, people will begin to reject depravity such as abortion, homosexuality, transgenderism etc. It’s very early days, but there are signs of this already happening in some parts of the world. Paraguay has recently declared itself officially a pro-life, pro-family nation and is defunding LGBT pro- grams. Brazil, under Jair Bolsonaro, is removing LGBT propaganda from its schools. Russia has criminalised the promotion of homosexuality. The US state of Idaho has just banned transsexuals from participating in women’s sports, and Trump has banned them from the military. Poland is increasingly clamping down on abortion. And Hungary, the jewel in the crown, a couple of years ago set about promoting traditional marriage and child-bearing, and they have been extraordinarily successful. This re- uniting in the Hungarian mind the truth that sex and babies are intimately connected has lead to yet further rolling back of modern depravities. It is now illegal in Hungary for homosexuals to promote their vice to the young. And just this March, the Hungarian parliament passed a law that made it illegal for a transgendered person to describe themselves on official documents as anything other than their true biological sex. Hungary has also recently outlawed gender reassignment surgery. And, as of writing, they have just defunded gender studies in Hungarian universities; one of the ministers quipping, “Who’s ever heard of anyone wanting to employ a gender-ologist?” - in- deed. Most surprising of all, Britain’s government, under Boris Johnson, is set to ban gender reassignment surgery for anyone under the age of eighteen, so no more Dr Frankenstein cutting off your child’s genitalia behind your back.
So there are small signs of hope: the secret is reattaching sex and babies as two sides of the same coin in the human sub-conscious. And this may not prove as difficult as it first sounds, for the lie always requires vastly more energy to keep afloat than does the truth. The Sexual State, in order to keep its lies in play, is like a man riding a bike on a treadmill; he has to keep pedaling like crazy just to go nowhere or else he will fall over. The separation of sex and babies in the human sub-conscious is an artificial construct that was imposed on us by the elite of the Sexual State; it was never some- thing that arose spontaneously from the grassroots. And precisely because it is an artificial construct, it needs constant propaganda (such as ever more sex-ed in schools) to keep it afloat. Once we see this, the forts of the Sexual State no longer appear as impregnable as they may once have seemed.
The counter charge at the moment is being lead by a small band of brave Catholic and Orthodox believers. Ultimately, I believe to make significant progress, it will need the Church to end its flirtation with the world and return to robust good health under the leadership of a holy pope, and for that end we must keep praying without ceasing, especially offering up our daily rosaries.
* with acknowledgement to Charles S. LiMandri
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