No, the book Sex At Dawn
and others like it completely debunk those. By completely missing the point of sex and sexual conduct Aquinas helped spread disease, destroy community bonds, and created permanent under classes.
Biologically, sex between humans is intended to create herd immunity by exposing you to small amounts of diseases from a lot of sources and to bond communities together. Sex was the first vaccine.
The primary purpose of sex, biologically, is not reproduction. That's why we have such a low fertility rate to the number of times we have sex. It's why we kiss. It's why we are always sexually active and not just when we're most fertile.
Aquinas' own work goes directly against nature and has allowed germs to get more virulent, has reduced herd immunity and has potentially killed millions with his misguided philosophies.
I know that making diseases spread better wasn't his intention, but that's the problem when you take the word of the uneducated and use it to build a society on. That herd immunity once lost is very hard to get back.
edited 7th Dec '12 5:32:32 PM by shimaspawn