From that moment he took on the task of defending the "procreative mission": the beautiful, profound, but profoundly impracticable teaching of Paul VI's Humanae Vitae, that every human sexual act must be open to the transmission of life.
The Catholic Church, for example, argues that by its very nature in vitro fertilisation dissociates the sexual act from the procreative act, involving the domination of technology over the genesis of the human person; depriving the child of being conceived by natural means as the fruit of love.
"Procreative capacity" has never been the basis of marriage, hence it is irrelevant, the judge found (infertile heterosexuals are allowed to marry, after all).
Apparently non procreative sex is only wrong when gays do it.Finally, Joseph Backholm complains of same-sex supporters "fram[ing] this as a vote for gay people to be happy".
Most daring of all, though unmentioned in his recent pronouncement, is the prospect that the gerontocratic method whereby Saudi kings have been succeeded, one after another, by a brother, each being a son of the state's gloriously procreative founding father, Abdel Aziz ibn Saud, may be dropped in favour of a prince from the younger generation.
Many anthropologists agree that divorce is generally more permissible in matrilineal societies than in patrilineal ones, in which the procreative and sexual rights of the bride are often symbolically transferred to the husband with the payment of bride-price.
Qualities sought in a spouse by the interested kin in an extended family include work ability, capacity to adapt, procreative power, status, and financial worth.
The influence of Plato, who in his later works questioned the benefit of sexual pleasure and distinguished procreative from nonprocreative sex, helped shape the Christian approach to sexuality that began with St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans and was later elaborated in the works of St. Augustine and Aquinas.
Many stem from the snakes' biological peculiarities: their ability to shed their skin is associated with immortality; their ever-open eyes represent omniscience; their propensity for sudden appearance and disappearance allies snakes with magic and ghosts; a phallic resemblance embodies procreative powers; and the ability to kill with a single bite engenders fear of any snakelike creature.
Are there any procreative rights?
Certain accounts of what counts as voluntary assumption – i.e., ones that count engaging in procreative sexual activity as voluntary assumption of parental obligations – could cause the voluntarist view to collapse back into the causal account.
