Your sexual promiscuity has cheapened your self-worth to less than a bottle of aspirin

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"Your sexual promiscuity has cheapened your self-worth to less than a bottle of aspirin."

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Some people might think that I am making a judgement about people who are sexually promiscuous.  The judgement is about the act of sexual promiscuity and the comment is in regard to what the sexually promiscuous person is doing to themselves.

The Catholic Church teaches that sex is to be between man and woman in marriage.  You can read what the Church actually teaches in the Catechism of the Catholic Church at the Vatican Archives.


The following is a response I had to someone regarding Rick Santorum's comments about homosexuality.  Contraception, sexual promiscuity, and self-worth are discussed and I eventually get back to self-worth, which is the point I made with my caption entry,"Your sexual promiscuity has cheapened your self-worth to less than a bottle of aspirin."


There is more to sex than just pleasure. If there was no pleasure in the act, a species might not procreate.  The primary purpose of sex is procreation.  This cannot happen with homosexual people.  While Rick Santorum's example of equating that act to having sex with an animal is grotesque and strong, it should drive home the point that such sexual activity is done simply for pleasure.

Another purpose of sex is the unifying aspect.  Some of this is the physical contact between the people and some is chemical.  Physical aspect can be accomplished between homosexual people, but not the fluid interaction that actually makes the woman desire that man.  This is also true for many forms of contraception between heterosexual partners.

Denying any of these aspects of sex is immoral. 


A relationship should be based on common interests, love for each other, and enjoying being with the other person.  When a person feels that the value they bring to a relationship needs to be sex, then they have reduced the value of the other things they bring to a relationship because sex is more important.  As sexual promiscuity continues with a person, they continue to devalue the other things they bring to a relationship.  Their self-worth is tied to their ability to bring sexual pleasure.  Some might say otherwise, but if one chooses to end the relationship because sex is not part of the relationship, they have reduced the value of the other person to being an object for sex.  When one feels that the only thing they bring to a relationship is sex, then that is the self-worth to which they have reduced themselves.