Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons, M.D., CERC - Peggy Noonan said, An aging Catholic priest suggested… "Contraception degenerates men," he said, as does abortion. Once you separate sex from its seriousness, once you separate it from its life-changing, life-giving potential, men will come to see it as just another want, a desire like any other. Once they think that, then they'll see sexual violations as less serious, less charged, less full of weight.