Table of Contents
Introduction: Why This Book, and What It's Not 11
Part I NFP and Your Spiritual Life
Chapter 1 Why Doesn't the Church Just Make a List? 17
Chapter 2 Making Room 24
Chapter 3 The Golden Box 27
Chapter 4 NFP, Providentialism, and Future-You 33
Chapter 5 No Petty Virtues 36
Chapter 6 Examination of Conscience for Those Using NFP 39
Chapter 7 Is It Really Okay to Laugh about Sex? 42
Part II NFP and the Rest of the World
Chapter 8 Prudence and Generosity in Public Conversation 49
Chapter 9 You Don't Know 53
Chapter 10 What Do We Tell Our Kids (and Ourselves) about Sex? 57
Chapter 11 The Worst Possible System, Except for All the Others 62
Chapter 12 Ask Your Doctor If Irreversible Mutilation Is Right for You! 66
Part III NFP in the Trenches
Chapter 13 Why NFP Hurts 73
Chapter 14 How to Ruin Your Marriage with NFP 78
Chapter 15 The Tangled Chain: Pursuing Chastity in Marriage 84
Chapter 16 Groping Toward Chastity 91
Chapter 17 But What about the Woman? Part One: Does God Just Hate Women, or What? 96
Chapter 18 But What about the Woman? Part Two: So What Do We Do about It? 102
Chapter 19 How to Have a Difficult Conversation with Your Husband 111
Chapter 20 How to Help Your Husband with NFP 114
Chapter 21 What's So Natural about Natural Family Planning? 120
Acknowledgments 125
Credits 127