point — Vermeersch, On Chastity
VI. Concerning the Circumstance: Where
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In what place.
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242. - The very natural sense of shame teaches man that a secret place is to be chosen for the conjugal work.
What if the spouses are discovered?
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Wherefore, if perhaps they are discovered in the act of marriage, the spouses can interrupt intercourse, even with the certain foresight of pollution (without consent to the pollution).
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In this matter parents must take care lest children, even those scarcely emerged from infancy, be able to observe the carnal intercourse of their parents.
What in a sacred place?
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From the reverence owed to a sacred place, it is evident that one must abstain from the conjugal act in a sacred edifice. This formerly, by positive law, was prohibited as a grave local sacrilege, so that a voluntary and at the same time notorious emission of human semen profaned a church. This cause of profanation is now passed over in silence in the new Code. Cf. canon 1172.
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Even formerly they excepted a case of necessity, as if, being detained in a church, with another choice of place excluded, they were situated in danger of incontinence, or foresaw that they would remain there for a long time (for several weeks or for a month).