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“Were not the first spouses, whose marriage God blessed by saying, ‘Increase and multiply’ (Genesis 1:28), naked and unashamed (Genesis 2:25)?Why, then, did shame about those organs follow sin, unless an indecent movement arose there, which marriage would certainly not have had if human beings had not sinned?”
Nonne illi coniuges primi, quorum nuptias benedixit Deus, dicens: Crescite et multiplicamini [n103] , nudi erant, et non confundebantur [n104] ? Cur ergo ex illis membris confusio post peccatum, nisi quia exstitit illic indecens motus, quem, nisi homines peccassent, procul dubio nuptiae non haberent?