Is Mut’aa marriage really prostitution? answering david wood by Fadel Soliman

For Augustine, the evil of sexual immorality was not in the sexual act itself, but rather in the emotions that typically accompany it. In On Christian Doctrine Augustine contrasts love, which is enjoyment on account of God, and lust, which is not on account of God.[153] Augustine claims that, following the Fall, sexual passion has become necessary for copulation, sexual passion is an evil result of the Fall, and therefore, evil must inevitably accompany sexual intercourse (On marriage and concupiscence ). Therefore, following the Fall, even marital sex carried out merely to procreate the species inevitably perpetuates evil (On marriage and concupiscence ; A Treatise against Two Letters of the Pelagians ). For Augustine, proper love exercises a denial of selfish pleasure and the subjugation of corporeal desire to God. The only way to avoid evil caused by sexual intercourse is to take the “better“ way (Confessions 8.2) and abstain from marriage (On marriage and concupiscence ). Sex wit