This, I swear, is the entire contents of the Catholic Medical Association‘s bioethics FAQ page:
Catholic Medical Association Bioethics FAQ
FAQs
Bioethics Questions
- Should a Physician Prescribe Viagra to Unmarried Men?
Catholic physicians are increasingly encountering requests by patients, including their unmarried male patients, for Viagra and are unsure of how to respond. This FAQ discusses how to approach this issue on sound clinical, ethical and practical grounds.
As Stephen Fry said, in his unmissable debate alongside Christopher Hitchens:
It’s the strange thing about this church: it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say: “we with our permissive society and our rude jokes are obsessed”. No. We have a healthy attitude, we like it, it’s fun, it’s jolly. Because it’s a primary impulse, it can be dangerous and dark and difficult.
It’s a bit like food in that respect, only even more exciting. The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. And that, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church in a nutshell.
Of all the hard and important bioethical questions that face our troubled species, the question of whether unmarried men are allowed erections is a pretty easy one. The answer is yes. Unless they’re priests.
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I’m about to be married in a catholic church, and amongst the paperwork I had to sign a guarantee that I was capable of consummating the marriage
Not only that, but my fiance must register a ‘consummated marriage’ at her embassy to have it recognised in the Philippines!
‘That was lovely, darling. Sign here, please!’