Rid Of John Paul...finally
Q: Pull a control group of 100 men that recently had protected or unprotected sex, and I doubt if religion factored into the decision in more than an absolute minimum of the cases. Pull a group of 100 Catholic men who consider themselves religious and who recently had unprotected sex outside of marriage and ask them whether they would have behaved differently if their priest had told them that it was an additional sin to have such sex without the use of a condom. I strongly suspect that the answer would be yes in more than an absolute minimum of the cases.
A: I can't believe this. You are one of the most logical, clear-thinking, unbiased people in this group, and you've suddenly decided to go off the deep end. If they consider themselves religious, they wouldn't have sex outside of marriage. Under what conditions would they have asked a priest's advice about using a condom during a sexual encounter outside of marriage? Under what conditions would any man consider the degrees of sinfulness involved in getting a piece of strange? What priest would consider the greater sin to be the use of a condom in an extra-marital affair? What married man could be expected to give a straight answer to a priest about the conditions of the encounter? Honest to God, Evan, I think you consider Catholics to be a different species. Now, tell me....Married Jewish guy is seriously thinking of banging his secretary. He's smitten with guilt at the thought and goes to his Rabbi and confesses. Not confesses the way a Catholic confesses, but