Abstinence
Abstinence is the most natural way to avoid having children. From the Christian point of view, based on the Bible, abstinence is not deprivation but rather an intelligent attitude:
For Single People
Abstinence is not only an obligation for the unmarried, it is also a great advantage for them. It is the only 100% safe method for not having children.
Thus it allows to:
- Avoid sexually transmitted diseases (against which the condom, so vaunted by sales representatives, is no real protection),
- Avoid being exploited by an irresponsible partner who would be there for the better but not for the worse,
- Avoid guilt and the manipulation by guilt which are the foundations of the sexual revolution,
- Be able to build a marriage in the future without any obstacles.
No "contraception" prevents 100% the sexual relationship from being fruitful. And a child is often not welcomed in the context of a couple who is not engaged and who has no financial resources. And this reality feeds the bloody business of abortion.
Human nature is such that sexual activity is intimately linked to emotions and mood. This explains much of the depression and suicides of young people: they discover to their cost that the one they believed to love, in fact only wanted his/her own pleasure and at the first opportunity he/she abandons them.
For Married People
Abstinence is not the rule for married people. God is the inventor of sexuality and the latter is not shameful, contrary to what paganism says:
« 1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: "It is good
for a man not to touch a woman."
2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife,
and let every woman have her own husband. 3
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise
also the wife unto the husband. 4
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and
likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the
wife.
5 Defraud ye not one the other; except it be with consent for a
time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come
together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.»
(1 Cor.7:1-7) (NKJV)
For married couples, abstinence is left up to them. However, abstinence is also prescribed during menstrual or accidental periods (see Lev.15:19, 28 and Lev.15:25) and during a period following childbirth. (Lev.12:2-7)[1].
1. This last act is a ceremonial law, and therefore not binding under the New Covenant, at least in regard to sacrifices. The prescribed period of abstinence (40 or 80 days) covers the puerperium period of about 6 weeks during which the woman is very fragile.
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