At 06:21 PM 11/8/2002 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote:
>> >Given that sex is a vital part of a wedding night, I think most couples
>> >will want >99.9% (rather than a mere 75%) chance of being able to have sex
>> >on their wedding night... :-)
>>
>> Is it really all that significant when the couple have been sharing board
>> and bed for the past year?
>
>But what about the cases in which they haven't? And would those be more
>likely, statistically speaking, to want to use NFP rather than other
>means of contraception anyway?
You mean like, oh I don't know........ if the bride and groom are both
practicing Catholics??? ;-)
And I will say that no, at least as far as I have been taught, sex on the
wedding night is not necessarily important. For one thing, both the groom
and especially the bride may be completely stressed out by the events of
the day, and it may also be already getting pretty late. I've been told
that it is not uncommon for the couple to wait until the morning of the
next day to consummate their marriage, after spending the night chastely in
each other's arms for the first time. And of course, if the couple is
Catholic and practicing NFP with intent to avoid conception, they may
choose to wait as much as a week before consummating their marriage - in
the meantime they may be exploring a few of those steps of intimacy before
intercourse that they had mutually decided to refrain from before marriage.
Oh, and there certainly are a great many Catholic couples, especially in
this day and age of marrying in your late 20's or later, that are prefectly
happy to role the dice of contraception on their wedding night.
JDG
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