However, unlike our other faculties, the procreative function of sexual faculties is not ultimately ordered towards self-maintenance, but towards a good that is external to us (the generation of new life). Hence, it is not wrong to occasionally interfere with the proximate function of these faculties (say by breathing in helium or chewing sugarless gum) if the act of doing so does not prevent the ultimate function of self-maintenance from occurring. ![]() ![]() Reply: Most of our faculties are proximately purposed towards an immediate function (digestion, pumping blood, oxygenation, etc.), and ultimately towards self-maintenance. Objection: “But didn’t you say earlier that it’s not always wrong to frustrate a bodily faculty? If so, what is the harm in engaging in occasional bouts of intrinsically non-procreative sex provided that one does not completely destroy his health or ability to procreate?” (Corvino makes this very objection).
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