Commonweal

I read a very opinionated column by Jo McGowan entitled "Simplifying Sex". It attacked the church's approach in regards to premarital sex, and birth control. This article was written with a strong voice with ample opinion to support the author's ideas. McGowan writes of how the church belittles sex, and does not conform to the needs of it's people in today's day and age. The author claims that the church sees sex without the purpose of pregnancy is simple for pleasure, and that pleasure alone can lead to destruction and hurt, but he goes on to state that many human actions are simply for pleasure, and even the act of becoming pregnancy can arguably a form of pleasure. I felt the most poignant statement in this article was made when McGowan wrote, " Every human activity has the potential to become unbalanced. Having children mindlessly, year after year, as former generations of Catholics did, is just as harmful to the social good as the refusal to connect sex with pregnancy". I think the best thing about this article was that the author not only took a stand against the Church, but used the Church's values to back up his point. It was truly eye opening, well-written, and informative.