| Final-Fan said: "We were also taught that if a man had sex with his already-pregnant wife, with the full knowledge that he could not get her pregnant if she was already pregnant, and would thus be having sex for pleasure (huuuuge sin), it wouldn't count as a sin, because it would be practice until she was ready to conceive again." Hmm, this "just practicing" loophole seems like it could be exploited. |
I've always felt the whole rhythm method was a pretty weak loophole that the church made up way later. It's not in the Bible. It's just this weird concept that as long as you're not using a condom or a pill or a patch or anything else to stop the sperm from reaching the egg, you can have all the period sex and pregnant sex you want, because... then there's a small chance that G-d will guide the sperm against all odds into a magical egg. There are rare girls with pretty constant 20 or 30 day menstrual cycles, so you could have sex every month and not be sinning. It's just the luck of the draw if you can find one of those girls.
Either way, the whole Puritan sex laws that still haunt America are fucking ridiculous and it used to be the law that rape isn't as bad as premarital sex. If you rape somebody and get them pregnant, you can pray a little and then marry them and it's all fine and dandy. The whole system is sexist bullshit that thinks women are whores if they have sex (like mrstickball pointed out), and guys are just young and practicing and fooling around and they'll grow up and settle down eventually.
