Augustine of Hippo and sex

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

8. You are actually in general agreement with me

I said that Augustine saw pleasure as A Bad Thing. Specifically, he saw it as a distraction in the search for unification with God. He had seen this in his own experience.

You say "The only good that Augustine saw in marriage was the production of children that excused the lust of sexual intercourse." This is not true. Certainly, he saw procreation as the chief good of marriage, but it was not the only good: Avoidance of adultery and building the relationship between the couple were also goods of marriage.