The Romanization Of Marriage And Sex - 913 Words

The Romanization of Marriage and Sex: A Necessary and Incomplete Everywhere you look in the media and society, sex can be found. From a Hardees commercial with Kate Upton to any sitcom episode, sex is placed as the desire to be fulfilled. Yet, in this sex obsessed society, many are apathetic and jaded by it. The hookups do not bring to fruit the bond that was created between two acquaintances, but deepen the longing for â€Å"love†. Pope John Paul II recognized this pain and hunger in society and gifted the church with the Theology of the Body (TOB). Sex no longer has to be merely a means to pleasure, but, in the correct context of marriage, it created space of a couple to be completely vulnerable and honest in their complete self-gift of one to another. It gives humanity a taste of marriage and sex before the Fall. However, certain catecheses of the TOB do overly romanticize love and sex, which is both necessary and unfortunate. For the sake of brevity, primarily focus of th is paper will be on David Cloutier and William Mattison’s critique of Christopher West’s catechesis of TOB. In Genesis, God speaks of the union created in marriage as, â€Å"man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body† (Gn. 2:24) and the role of sex as â€Å"be fertile and multiply† (Gn. 1:28). However, the Church’s understanding of marriage and sex has been less than clear throughout its history and still is in need of clarity. John Paul II developed the Theology of