1202. CONCERNING THOSE WHO PRACTICE VENERY WITHOUT TRUE CONJUGIAL LOVE, OR WITHOUT THE DESIRE OF PROCREATING OFFSPRING Because there are many, especially in Christendom, who contract matrimony late in life, and because they are punished when they conceive and bear offspring apart from lawful marriage, many men and women thence contract such a nature that they desire to practice venery without any desire for offspring; thus they altogether exclude from themselves that which is the center and inmost [of marriage].