Contraception: A Psychological Prostitution
By Dominic Pedulla MD
Here is my own speculative TOB-enabled scientific interpretation:
the gift of bearing new life belongs uniquely to the woman. In God’s
plan for the woman, in particular, to be truly happy in the conjugal
relationship she must be able to be fully and unconditionally loved for
who she is; that is, accepted fully for the unique person she is,
without any compromises.
Because her identity is more mysterious on account of this hidden
life-giving power (than, say, the man’s is), she of necessity and
without being able to do anything about it must communicate her life-giving identity as part of her person
when in the conjugal act she communicates her whole being. This
existential nakedness (“apocalypsis”, “unveiling”), though only remotely
hinted at by the more obvious, physical nakedness of the conjugal act
(remember John Paul II said the body is the sacrament of the inner
mystery of the person) is the place for the deep and intimate
self-revelation the woman will express in this act.
This is dangerous territory! It is a dangerously intimate self-revelation but also self-exposure. In
fact, affirming love and the need for authentic procreative
self-actualization appear to be so important that they constitute the
only reasons sufficient for nature to permit this intimate and dangerous
core self-exposure.
Dominic Pedulla grew up in New York City and the professional
inspiration was his father who is a doctor and his mother who is an R.N.
His mother was the one who gave him an early respect for women and a
keen understanding of their dignity. He started the Edith Stein Foundation
because all that keen interest and because of the obvious assault on
that dignity that he felt was being practiced within the medical
profession.
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