You may want to also consider looking into the political and socioeconomic climates during which the current Christian attitudes toward sexual behavior were codified.
The times during which Christianity became widespread and accepted in the West- the very times the tenants of the modern Church were defined- were war-torn and plagued with enough disease and famine that some of the older attitudes regarding reproductive necessity would have come back into vogue.
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Date: 2004-05-21 03:22 pm (UTC)The times during which Christianity became widespread and accepted in the West- the very times the tenants of the modern Church were defined- were war-torn and plagued with enough disease and famine that some of the older attitudes regarding reproductive necessity would have come back into vogue.