Wisdom from unexpected sources

Even Freud and Darwin knew that contraception was dangerous and perverse...now what will those who claim we are just radical Christians say?

One reads in Sigmund Freud's Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, "It is a characteristic common to all the (sexual) perversions that in them reproduction as an aim is put aside. This is actually the criterion by which we judge whether a sexual activity is perverse-- if it departs from reproduction in its aims and pursues the attainment of gratification independently."

Charles Darwin worried that contraceptive technology would "spread to unmarried women and would destroy chastity on which the family bond depends; and the weakening of this bond would be the greatest of all possible evils to mankind." (Charles Darwin, letter to Charles Bradlaugh, June 6, 1877, in Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002), 468.