1202. About those who make love without true marriage love,
or the desire to have children
There are many men and women, especially in Christendom, who because they enter late into matrimony, and because they are punished when they conceive and bear offspring out of wedlock, acquire the nature of wanting to make love without any desire for children, thus cutting themselves off from the very central and deepest aspect of it.
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].
1202. De iis qui venerem exercent, absque amore vero conjugiali, seu desideeio procreandi prolem
Sunt multi, cumprimis in Christianismo, qui quia sero matrimonia contrahunt, et quia puniuntur dum absque legitimo matrimonio prolem concipiunt, et pariunt, qui et quae inde trahunt eam naturam, quod venerem exercere 1
cupiant, absque desiderio prolis, sic quod est medium et intimum prorsus a se excludunt.
Footnotes:
1. The Manuscript has exercerere