Pope in favor of getting it on

[mdklatt]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...010462,00.html

POPE BENEDICT XVI yesterday praised the “ecstasy” of physical love between a man and a woman as a pathway leading to the divine love of God.

Do me, I'm Catholic.

[Ike]

every sperm is sacred
every sperm is great
if a sperm is wasted
god gets quite irate

[mdklatt]

Interesting.

This is the headline attached to the London Times version of the article I linked above:

Pope Benedict puts body and soul into declaration of love


This is the Los Angeles Times headline:

Pope's First Encyclical Warns Against Casual Sex


This country is full of prudes, even in LA.

[mdklatt]

every sperm is sacred
every sperm is great
if a sperm is wasted
god gets quite irate

Does this mean women are allowed to--ahem--self soothe?

[skycat]

Does this mean women are allowed to--ahem--self soothe?

Yes.

However it's a sin to menstruate.

[OUTromBoNado]

I know it's old but....

[Penguin]

Somebody needs to forward that to my wife. Episodes of divine "ecstasy" are few and far between.

[critical_phil]

[handcrafted]

Interesting.

This is the headline attached to the London Times version of the article I linked above:

Pope Benedict puts body and soul into declaration of love


This is the Los Angeles Times headline:

Pope's First Encyclical Warns Against Casual Sex


This country is full of prudes, even in LA.

So if someone is against just hopping in the sack with anyone you want, without the commitment of a marriage, that makes that person a prude?

I think my wife would take issue with your description of me.

The Pope is right, in the sense that the expression of physical love between man and wife is an earthly image of a heavenly reality; that is, Christ's love for His Church. At least, I think that's what he was alluding to.

[mdklatt]

So if someone is against just hopping in the sack with anyone you want, without the commitment of a marriage, that makes that person a prude?

It's just interesting that the LA Times headline jumped right on the sin aspect. I got that from Google News, which allows you to find all related stories. There were hundreds of different links for that story, and a number US headlines focused on sin while the international headlines focused on love.

India: "Pope Benedict's edict explores issue of love"

Detroit: "Pope writes: Sex without love deceives"

Seattle: "Pope warns about loveless sex"

Germany: "Benedict's Ode to Love"

[NormanPride]

American news sucks.

Now my girlfriend the journalist is going to kill me.

[Herr Scholz]

I don't know why this divine ecstasy physical love can't coexist with contraception. Catholics.

[mdklatt]

I don't know why this divine ecstasy physical love can't coexist with contraception.

If you can do it without without getting pregnant you'll want to do it for fun. And that's just dirty.

[Herr Scholz]

Dirty and divine.

[NormanPride]

Dirty and Divine?

[handcrafted]

If you can do it without without getting pregnant you'll want to do it for fun. And that's just dirty.

Yet another reason why I am a Protestant. We believe in sex for fun. As long as you're married, of course.

[handcrafted]

It's just interesting that the LA Times headline jumped right on the sin aspect. I got that from Google News, which allows you to find all related stories. There were hundreds of different links for that story, and a number US headlines focused on sin while the international headlines focused on love.

India: "Pope Benedict's edict explores issue of love"

Detroit: "Pope writes: Sex without love deceives"

Seattle: "Pope warns about loveless sex"

Germany: "Benedict's Ode to Love"

Oh, I see. Yeah, that is interesting. Probably indicative of the general moral state of Western Europe. As bad as things are getting here, they are 100 times worse over there.

[skycat]

Oh, I see. Yeah, that is interesting. Probably indicative of the general moral state of Western Europe. As bad as things are getting here, they are 100 times worse over there.

Wait, emphasizing the message of love in the pope's comments indicate a general state of moral decay?

[mdklatt]

Oh, I see. Yeah, that is interesting. Probably indicative of the general moral state of Western Europe.

I see it as indicative of the fact the all the fundamentalists left Europe and ended up here.

As bad as things are getting here, they are 100 times worse over there.

What's so bad about Europe? Do they have high murder rates, high divorce rates, high rates of teenage pregnancy, rampant alcholism, and lots of drug abuse too?

[BillyBall]

What's so bad about Europe?

Parisians