"Non ergo accedas, si potes, nisi liberorum procreandorum causa."
— Augustine of Hippo

January 1, 1970

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So if you can manage it, you shouldn’t touch your partner, except for the sake of having children. — 278:9; translation from: The works of Saint Augustine, John E. Rotelle, New City Press, 1994, p. 55.