The "So you think you know everything about SEX" test

1.	Who said, "The marriage bed is the most degenerating influence in the social order"?

2.  What sexually transmitted disease kills more women than AIDS?

3. Rank the effectiveness of these in postponing pregnancy: Condom, Pill, Rhythm, Withdrawal, Sympto‑Thermal NFP, IUD, Diaphragm? 

4. Is marital chastity a contradiction in terms? And what is the difference between chastity, celibacy, abstinence, and continence?

5. Which of the following are abortifacients?
a) IUD?  b) RU‑486?  c) Norplant?  d) Birth control pills?

6. Where's your cervix?

7. What are the three 100% effective birth control methods? Which is effective against sexually transmitted diseases?

8. What is "safe sex"?

9. What was Onan's sin, for which God killed him? (Gen. 38:8‑10)

10. (TRUE and FALSE) T ‑ F  Before 1930, no Christian Church had ever accepted contraception as morally acceptable.

11. T ‑ F  Birth control pills have several dozen identified medical side effects, including death, blindness, sterility, heart disease, stroke, breast cancer, and birth defects.

12. T ‑ F Birth control can be used to increase as well as decrease fertility.
 
13. T ‑ F The divorce rate among practitioners of natural family planning is under 4%; among contracepting couples, about 50%. 

14. At 8 weeks after conception, what organs is a new baby missing?

15. Cycle irregularity can be caused by: a) stress b) nutrition c) light d) hormonal imbalances e) nursing.

16. How long is the luteal phase?

17. T ‑ F The belief that sexual intercourse is intended by God to be a renewal of the marriage covenant helps to explain the moral wrongness of both contraception and sex outside of marriage.

18. Using only a thermometer, how long after conception can you be positive you're pregnant (or not)?

19. The Couple to Couple League is: a) a charter bus line b) a wife swapping club c) a coed bowling team d) a volunteer group that teaches marital chastity and natural family planning

20. Does Catholic Church law allow birth control?

ANSWERS

1. Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood.

2. Human Papillomavirus (HPV), which causes most cervical cancers. One of many reasons to practice chastity.

3. Method failure rates are: Calendar Rhythm 13%, Withdrawal 9%, Diaphragm 3%, Condom 1‑3%, Pill 0.3‑1.5%, Sympto‑Thermal NFP under 0.5%, IUD 1‑3%.

4. Chastity is using God's gift of sex the way He intended, that is, unitive and procreative, instead of adultery, fornication, contraception, rape, sodomy, etc. Celibacy means being unmarried. Continence is controlling yourself when needed. Abstinence means total continence. For the unmarried, chastity is abstinence. For the married, chastity is continence, occasionally abstinence when pregnancy has to be postponed for an important reason.

5. All of them, c and d secondarily, prevent implantation of or remove a newly conceived person from the mother’s uterus.

6. It's the opening of the uterus into the vagina.

7. Castration (NOT vasectomy), removal of the ovaries (NOT tubal ligation), and abstinence, which alone is effective against STD's.

8. Chastity. Contraceptives have a failure rate which can make them very UNsafe. "Don't copy the behavior of this age...Use every part of your body to give glory to God, because He owns it. He has bought you, and at a great price." Rom 12:1‑2; I Cor 6:18‑20

9. Contraception, according to Martin Luther, John Wesley, and many other Protestant theologians.

10, 11, 12,13:  all TRUE. 

12. True birth control can INCREASE fertility (but contraception cannot). 

14. None. All he or she needs is time to mature.

15. All of them. Fortunately, Sympto‑Thermal NFP can accurately make you aware of the phases of your fertility by directly observing bodily signs. It's nice to know what's going on.

16. 14 days normally. That's between ovulation and next menses.
		
18. 3 weeks. And you don't need pregnancy tests.

19. d, with over 700 teaching couples, mostly in the U.S. (But we’ve been mistaken for a, b, and c.) There are several other groups who teach different methods of NFP.

20. Yes, when you decide, with an informed conscience, that it is necessary. But contraception and abortifacients are against natural law, binding on all humans. "All the baptized are called to chastity", says the new Catechism, par. 2370. What's left? NFP, which is effective, safe, healthy, marriage building, moral, chaste, and cheap.

References to most of the answers above can be found in “The Art of Natural Family Planning”, published by:
The Couple to Couple League		
PO Box 111184				
Cincinnati OH 45211				
(513) 471‑2000
www.ccli.org