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    Bern, I am having amazing trouble interpreting your sentiment that "sex isn't a right". I think in all the years I have used the Internet I have never, EVER read such a strange, misguided, and frankly ludicrous statement. Ever! "Sex isn't a right" is quite possibly THE most Catholic thing one could ever say. "Rape" isn't a right - "Abuse" isn't a right - sex, on the other hand, should be the most basic, base, fundamental right of every individual of legal age in the whole world. No matter if people are married or playing the field, sex is the ULTIMATE human right, the choice to share the act of love in a relationship, or just for the fun of the conquest, between consenting adults, is the right that leads all rights in this sorry world of ours. What manner of person would ever claim that sex isn't a human right? I am in a state of disbelief!

    Sex and the desire to have sex are natural and healthy, formed in the most positive parts of our most basic instincts, enjoyable in practice, and good for all involved. It is only the unhealthy attitudes towards sex, in particular led by the Catholic church who regard it as sinful, dirty, something to feel guilty about, that we would ever question it in this manner.

    I would also challenge your view that being celibate doesn't lead to abuse. No, it probably doesn't in most "normal" cases. But when you figure that many people try to be celibate in order to live up to the expected standards of an external authority system then this CAN and DOES lead to abuse. Catholic priests who abuse choir boys or whoever do so NOT because they are medically compromised, nor widowed, nor suffering some natural aversion, but because their faith TELLS THEM HOW TO LIVE and this instruction clearly goes against their nature leading to this type of terrible inner conflict.

    In my world there are no such things as "sins", only "crimes", and sex is neither. Abuse, on the other hand, is crime and should attract appropriate punishment instead of expensive cover-ups as is widely reported against the Catholic church.

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