Nonmarital, nonprocreative, purely recreational sex—the only kind homosexuals could practice—was legitimated for the first time in American culture. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
Or committed, nonprocreative polygamous marriages? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Well, imagine that: contraception leads to the validation of nonprocreative sex, which leads to the acceptance of homosexual sex. ❋ Unknown (2009)
John, you are entitled to think that nonprocreative sex is bad. ❋ Unknown (2009)
By the way, just to be clear, there is plenty of sex WITH responsibility that is nonetheless nonprocreative. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The Church itself started to appeal to a conception of “nature” as the standard of morality, and drew it in such a way so as to forbid homosexual sex (as well as extramarital sex, nonprocreative sex within marriage, and often masturbation). ❋ Pickett, Brent (2006)
(Greenberg, 1988, 260) Even while some Christian theologians continued to denounce nonprocreative sexuality, including same-sex acts, a genre of homophilic literature, especially among the clergy, developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries (Boswell, 1980, chapters 8 and 9). ❋ Pickett, Brent (2006)
Hence the spilling of semen for any nonprocreative purpose -- in coitus interruptus (Gen. 38: 1-11), male homosexual acts, or male masturbation -- was considered tantamount to abortion or murder. ❋ Unknown (2004)
G: I thought he was using “sodomy”? in the traditional sense of any nonprocreative sexual act. ❋ Unknown (2005)
I thought he was using “sodomy” in the traditional sense of any nonprocreative sexual act. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Chief Justice Marshall then pointed out that Massachusetts like Vermont not only allows nonprocreative couples to marry and stay married, but also permits gay parents to adopt, has many parents who conceived their children through alternative insemination and other means, and has a strong public policy of supporting kids, no matter who their parents are or what their family configuration is.11 ❋ Evan Wolfson (2004)
There is a really disturbing tendency to equate nonprocreative sex with leisure activities, such as sports or hobbies, or with such activities as smoking and drinking. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Historically and empirically the argument is incorrect: marriage has everywhere and always been for both procreative and nonprocreative couples. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Even if the allowance for millions and millions of heterosexual nonprocreative marriages were a loophole or an exception, the exception should be applied evenhandedly, not selectively or self-servingly by and for the people who have the votes. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Early American sodomy laws were not directed at homosexuals as such but instead sought to prohibit nonprocreative sexual activity more generally, whether between men and women or men and men. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The longstanding criminal prohibition of homosexual sodomy upon which Bowers placed such reliance is as consistent with a general condemnation of nonprocreative sex as it is with an established tradition of prosecuting acts because of their homosexual character. ❋ Unknown (2003)
