"They exercise genital acts, yet prevent the conceiving of children. Not in order to produce offspring, but to satisfy lust, are they eager for corruption."
— Lust

January 1, 1970

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Epiphanius, of certain Egyptian heretics, ' 26:5 (A.D. 375]); as qtd. in Contraception: A History of Its Treatment by the Catholic Theologians and Canonists (1965), p. 97