How To Use Procreative In A Sentence
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To stem the devastating tide of human procreativeness, however, easy as it may seem in theory, is by no means so easy as some think, especially as those think who believe that the human race stands on the brink of suicide.
On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue
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None of them looks steadfastly at what the poem calls, quoting Whitman, "the procreative urge."
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Pope Paul had famously said that the purpose of the conjugal act is both "unitive" and "procreative," noting that each, rightly pursued, facilitates the other.
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Vaerting is inclined to see in this order, especially in the predominance of the clergy, the favourable influence of an unexhausted reserve of energy and a habit of chastity on intellectual procreativeness.
Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene
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The title symbolically equips the with explosive power and a procreative, insectlike ubiquity.
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Nonmarital, nonprocreative, purely recreational sex—the only kind homosexuals could practice—was legitimated for the first time in American culture.
A Renegade History of the United States
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While committed gay partners obviously cannot have procreative sex, they can and do certainly have the unitive kin, yet the Catholic Church hierarchy persists in depriving LGBT people of this mitzvah (blessing) on the grounds that marriage is essentially procreative even while teaching that marriage is not exclusively procreative.
Michele Somerville: Homophobia in the Church: What Catholics Are Doing About It, and What Still Needs to Be Done
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Officially, as Pius XI ruled in 1930, frustrating the procreative act is "an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such acts are branded with the guilt of a grave sin".
Condoms and the Catholic church: a short history
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Greek gods like Priapus are known for nothing else but their sexual and procreative prowess.
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As a general rule, they are sexually receptive and conceptive until they are twelve years old; although, by the way, cases have been known where dogs and bitches have been respectively procreative and conceptive to the ages of eighteen and even of twenty years.
The History of Animals
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Op Ed: Proscriptions on who may marry, such as preventing consanguine marriages, can be easily understood by referring to the procreative potential of marriage.
Why are only queer rights on the chopping block?
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Ironically Pope Paul's affirmation of the unitive and procreative goals of marriage set the scene for Pope John Paul II's theology of the body which speaks so powerfully to young adults today.
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What such sources do is present arguments, based on Scripture, Tradition, and natural law, that the "unitive" significance of sexual intercourse cannot be had without procreative significance.
Same-sex marriage: back to square one
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Whenever a population reaches a certain stage of civilisation and nervous development its procreativeness, quite apart from any effort of the will, tends to diminish.
On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue
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Catholic doctrine already upholds the sanctity of non-procreative, or what it calls "unitive" love in heterosexual marriage.
Michele Somerville: Marriage Equality In New York: A Moral Triumph
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In my opinion, it seems the theogonies of the ancient Near East have almost always had a procreative backdrop.
Genesis: The Missing Chapters
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Sex of course has a procreative function.
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It could not be more clear that research must be conducted on the relative status of sexual intimacy in the minds of persons engaged in different kinds of procreative activity.
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Proscriptions on who may marry, such as preventing consanguine marriages, can be easily understood by referring to the procreative potential of marriage.
Why are only queer rights on the chopping block?
