The New Act of Sex

About the Book

The morality of any act depends upon its probable consequences. Sex without dependable contraception will frequently lead to pregnancy and the birth of a new human life. Sex with dependable contraception almost never leads to pregnancy or the birth of a new human life. Sex with dependable contraception is new, having arrived on the scene only in recent decades. Since the results are different, the act is new.

Simple, wasn't it! So why do we need a book for what can be written on a file card? Sometimes I wonder. It seems so obvious and incontrovertible. Of course there is a new act of sex.

About the Author

Stephen Cree, a graduate of Iowa State University and Drake Divinity School, has spent many years philosophizing and writing about God, the institutional church, and sex. Cree wrote the first draft of The New Act of Sex in 1968 and feels that its message about our feelings and actions in regard to ‘sex with dependable contraception’ is as valid today as it was in 1968. Cree is the father of seven children and seven grandchildren and lives in Iowa City, Iowa with his wife, Nancy. Watching his children grow up over the last thirty years has convinced him that we have not given our children a way to think about their sexual actions with a solid moral and religious foundation.