Sentences with phrase «perverted faculty»

[2] Smith holds that the perverted faculty argument, in at least some form, is a part of any coherent argument against contraception, [3] but claims that her argument is more than the classical version of the perverted faculty argument because it dwells on more than the physical end of the faculty.

The perverted faculty argument says that the only moral use of the sexual faculty is in its non-contracepted heterosexual use between married spouses.

Not exact matches

To cite two texts: In a 1929 article, «Birth Control: The Perverted Faculty Argument», Henry Davis says, ``... the contraceptive act between a husband and wife is mortally sinful, chiefly, it would seem because it is a grave abuse of a faculty, a gross perversion of a means — the act of marital intercourse - which is given by Nature, that is, God, to man for the immediate purpose of generation».

Any other use of the faculty is contrary to its purpose and is thus «perverted».