college kid sex questions—ANSWERED!
(Disclaimer: I get the fire and true arguments from the majestic Dr. Alexander Pruss's book One Body: An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics) Fornication (sex outside marriage) is wrong Simple summary: When children are conceived “out of wedlock,” they tend to lack the stable support a married father provides. More fundamentally, voluntary “fornication” departs from the natural purpose of sex—namely, to join husband and wife in a lifelong union that is open to children—and so is judged wrong on natural‐law grounds. Verbatim quotation: “On the natural law side, Thomas Aquinas argues that fornication is wrong because children are harmed by being conceived in circumstances where they will receive inadequate paternal support … Nor does it matter if a man having knowledge of a woman by fornication, make sufficient provision for the upbringing of the child: because a matter that comes under the determination of the law is judged according to what happens in general, and not according to w...