The Philosophy of Sex According to St. Thomas Aquinas: An Abstract of a Dissertation

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cited in Griffin, [*Supernatural Fatherhood Through Priestly Celibacy*](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=7019), PDF p. 276 (p. 280) n64, a good summary of St. Thomas's view that sexual differentiation is to free men and women for contemplation:> Aquinas viewed virginity as more desirable than marriage, which entangles a person in the affairs of the world and withdraws him from heavenly things, and in which the vehemence of sexual activity clouds the use of reason.64> 64\. On the solicitude for temporal concerns that dominates the married life, see [ST II-II.186.4](https://isidore.co/aquinas/summa/SS/SS186.html#SSQ186A4THEP1); [SCG III.136](https://isidore.co/aquinas/ContraGentiles3b.htm#136).10-13; and [*De Perf.* cap. 8](https://isidore.co/aquinas/PerfectVitaeSpir.htm#8). On the impediment that sexual passion presents to the exigencies of contemplation, see in addition [SCG III.27](https://isidore.co/aquinas/ContraGentiles3a.htm#27).10; [ST *Supp.* 41.3](https://isidore.co/aquinas/summa/XP/XP041.html#XPQ41A3THEP1) ad 2 and ad 6; [*Sent.* IV, D. 26, Q. 1, A. 2, co.](https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~Sent.IV.D26.Q1.A2.8); [*Sent.* IV, D. 33, Q. 3, A. 1, co.](https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~Sent.IV.D33.Q3.A1.9) [[II-II q. 152 a. 1](https://isidore.co/aquinas/summa/SS/SS152.html#SSQ152A1THEP1); [*Quodl.*](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=7548) VI q. 10 a. 1; ref:21.142]; and [*Sup. Gal.* cap. 5, l. 6](https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~Gal.C5.L6). […] Toon, “The Philosophy of Sex According to St. Thomas Aquinas," […]cf. § "St. Thomas's Views on Sexual Intercourse" of [this answer](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/a/50215/1787) to the question "[Are Catholics required to accept every article of Aquinas's «Summa Theologica»?](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/q/50210/1787)"