In other words, people are less important to the church than the harsh rules it adopted centuries ago. A 1992 World Health Organization report estimated that more than 100 million couples around the globe make love in a single day. And people relish sexual entertainment as well. And it isn't the billions of people who know, deep in their psyches, that lovemaking is intrinsically good. Most Westerners have come to regard sex as wholesome and wonderful.
Sanctimonious strictures suit fewer and fewer people.