Food and Sex

I am reading an excellent paper on marriage. It gave me another word I have been lacking in my writings about contraception. (And we know how much I love words!!) That word is "organic." Currently, the word has become a buzzword for healthy living. I tend to agree with the concept even though I often disagree with the application, or more accurately, the politics of the people who apply it. but politics aside, I agree that organic is superior to inorganic.

So that brings me to the reason for this post. The paper was addressing the marriage act as an organic act. It was saying, in part, that the act of coitus is the core of reproduction. Whether or not it results in conception is not relevant to the organic act. The act stays an organic act either way. When organic is defined in this context it is more accurate. It is defined by the core and not by the results, in much the same way as an organic food could be contaminated after the fact.

Natural coitus is an organic act. Contraception and IVF are inorganic acts. The word "spermicide" alone is just one example. Inorganic interruption of the female reproductive cycle makes the act itself inorganic because it changes the core. Menopause is an organic interruption of the female cycle so the act is still an organic act. Organic, by definition, is referring to the natural environment and natural design.

Organic is superior. It also requires a deeper commitment. The contraceptive argument would be, "Just because inorganic food is less ideal you wouldn't stop eating." I agree. But my counter to that argument is that some inorganic items actually cease to be food. At that point, I would stop eating. Worse yet, if those things were actually poison to the body and to the marriage, I would probably devote a fair amount of my time to education and information. (of course!) The sexual, contraceptive act has ceased to be a marital act because it is so far removed from the organic. A cohabitation filled with sexual acts that are not marital acts, does not define marriage. It seeks to redefine marriage away from the organic.