This is an interesting conversation Jeanie, but I'm thinking that if we don't get back to the original questions in this thread, some people might think that distraction tactics are being employed.

Strict Catholics believe that sex should wait until marriage, as many devout Christians do. In my opinion this has a lot to do with cultural mores, and also the fact that when these rules were made, there was no birth control and no guarantee that a man's children were his own unless he had a wife he could be pretty sure was faithful to him.

There was a definite downside to being Catholic but maybe we can discuss these kinds of things in a more appropriate thread?