We're always being told that had nothing whatever to do with sex. No, I can't believe this any more...Not that procreation, as such, would never have been without the Fall. That's nonsense, to my mind; but somehow or other it would have been ...If it's true that St Thomas held other and more optimistic views on this subject, this doesn't disconcert me one bit. Maybe an , as he was, endowed with the charism of virginity, would be incapable of realizing the depth of the Fall in this domain. What is always attributed to the latent Manicheism in St Augustine might well be the realism of experience.
Ida Friederike Görres