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Recently a Protestant friend claimed that the Catholic Church was sex-negative from the very beginning, and that that is the only reason why She thought it important to define Mary's Perpetual Virginity dogmatically - because She thought that if Mary did have normal marital relations, this would detract from her holiness, since sex is carnal and associated with sin and unbecoming of someone who is completely and utterly holy. She said that Protestants are indifferent to whether Mary remained a virgin because sex is proper and good within marriage and isn't the mark of sin. What my friend said made a lot of sense to me and I wasn't able to think of any other reason why the Church would want to define this dogmatically. What is the truth of the matter?