No wonder, then, that the Church produces so many priests who are lost souls, sociopathic sacrifices to the Catholic cause of image control. Clearly the sensible view, for Eurydice, is that maximal license in sexual matters is an unqualified good. On this point, it is she and not the Pope who stands with the pornographers. Declare that a woman simply is her body and that pursuing one's felt appetites is a good, even a duty, and women will soon find themselves in the culture from hell. Even without these sad consequences, the utilitarian view would ring false.
Human persons are more than their bodies.
They are thinking subjects capable of free decisions, open to internal relations of knowledge and love, even the love of God. When the first man is created, according to the Genesis account, it is his body that makes him aware that he is alone, that he is unlike every other creature that God has made. This very awareness of his solitude also reveals his need for an expectation of another like himself. The bodies of men and women, in their attraction to and joy in one another, play a prophetic role, according to the Holy Father. Because of their complementarity, our bodies reveal that we are made to be a gift, to express love to another.