The generation of life

Speaking of sexuality and its value, we cannot ignore what is intimately connected to it. Its ultimate and most expressive meaning is the generation of life. Generation is the result of a mutual journey of Love and also of sharing the genetic heritage, from a purely biological point of view. Love has a value of fecundity: putting together one's wealth to give light to a new life.

It is necessary to understand - however - the current perception of sexuality, as society has made the search for pleasure the predominant element, losing sight of the more human and gift aspect. The approach to sexuality today is increasingly characterized by the displacement or rejection of the procreative aspect, while Love is crowned and fulfilled precisely in this union that leads to the generation of life.

Social conditions often do not help, because they do not allow you to welcome a new life. We see how the same social policies, the rhythms of life, the organization of work make couples come to imagine the generation of a new life at a fairly advanced age, when fertility decreases. It becomes, therefore, increasingly difficult to follow up on such a great and beautiful desire. There is an increasingly technological society and an increasingly medicalized and personalized approach, which also leads to the implementation of the entire sphere of techniques for so-called "medically assisted" fertilization.

All this makes the vision of human procreation very complex with the risk of losing precisely the qualifying element, which is the human: There is, often, a technocratic approach that is combined with the idea of selection of unborn life, with the choice of certain characteristics. This leads to welcoming life more as a product than as the fruit of the gift of mutual Love. I believe that this is the greatest challenge for our society, which places us in the demographic crisis. We need to rethink both sexuality and the use of technology in a way that is more consistent with Anthropology. An ethical approach could constitute, today, the most appropriate response to reflections related to human procreation.