The Importance of the Will in Sexual Intercourse

Augustine's demented writings on pre-lapsarian sex marked the apex of three generations of theologians who had worked themselves into an unwholesome frenzy over human sexuality. The writings that they left behind on the subject generally more perverted and pernicious than the prosaic part of human existence that they were so bent on condemning. In such a perfect world, sex would have been as pure and shameless as scattering seeds on a field," he writes.