[Cerek the Barbaric]

Originally posted by Rokenn: How am I missing the point? According to Yorick the bible states any sex that is not intended to produce offspring within a marriage is wrong. So by that reasoning couples where one of the partners is sertile should never have sex.

Not exactly. What he said was "The Christian moral ethic is that sex is to ONLY be expressed within the context of a committed male-female family building lifepartnership."

That means you are to choose one opposite-sex partner with whom you want to build a family and share the rest of your life, and only have sex with that person...not that you can only have sex to produce offspring.

Most men who have vasectomies already have children. The same is true for women who have their tubes tied. The purpose is to avoid having any more children. This can be based on health or financial issues and not just for the sake of convenience for the partners.

The point is that most men or women who choose these "sterilization procedures" have already "produced offspring" long before the procedure was done.