Sentences with phrase «biological purpose of sex»

We stressed the spiritual and symbolic, at the expense of gross incarnational fact: Hence, we played down the material element in morality, the ex opere operato aspect of the sacraments, the biological purpose of sex, the concrete burden of the historic Church.

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Same - sex marriage erodes the very purpose of marriage as a social institution and trivializes the intellectual, psychological, and biological distinctions between men and women.

That in itself raises fundamental biological questions: If asexual females grow faster and bear children much more quickly than sexual females, what's the purpose of sex, and why is it the dominant method of reproduction in the animal world?