From Psychology Today:
Santorum has argued that contraception is morally wrong because, “It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.” But human beings happily experience, witness, imagine, and lament a cornicopia of erotic encounters that couldn’t possibly result in conception. Leaving aside the many “perversions” happily practiced by humans the world over, the human female is available even for Vatican-approved missionary position intercourse—at least theoretically—when she’s menstruating, already pregnant, post-menopausal, or otherwise precluded from conceiving. Is this, too, an abomination? Even Santorum and his wife, who have had more children than most couples, have certainly had a lot more non-reproductive than reproductive sex over the years.Read the entire article. Santorum's brain seems not to be able to absorb the rudimentary realities of human sexuality (and those of our cousins the chimps and bonobos!). Nothing anyone says shakes his rock-solid conviction that the talking points straight out of the Vatican are the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Thanks to Paul (A.) for the link. See? Paul (A.)'s contributions to Wounded Bird are not confined to jokes. He also contributes stimulating intellectual content.
