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Karol Wojtyła was not only active writing books about human sexuality but also devoted a lot of time and effort to marriage and family ministry based on the idea that sex cannot be treated in purely physiological or scientific way. Catholic marriage counseling was a novelty in Poland after the war and Wojtyła became its chief promoter and pioneer among the Polish clergy and among his parishioners. The Catholic counselors and volunteers, recruited by Wojtyła in the Kraków Archdiocese to advise couples before and during marriage, were asked “to stress with full determination that erotic experiences cannot be the essential purpose of married life.”

The purpose of marriage, according to Wojtyła, was to be found in forming a family unit and in deepening spiritual love between the two people. The second order to counselors, most of whom were women, was to let young couples know that contraception leads to abortion. They were to tell them that contraception has the potential of introducing the idea that parents can kill their own unborn children. As early as in the late 1940s, Wojtyła rejected the argument that contraception could reduce the number of abortions or be allowed as a lesser evil.