Query for the Catholic Church

(And for those of you unfamiliar with the King's English, "query" does not refer to the sexual orientation of the leaders of said organization. I really don't care about that. I'm just asking a question here.)

I was at a celebrated local eating establishment today. It was my first time there for their Sunday buffet, and I picked a lousy day to go because apparently a monseignor all the way from Ireland was here so there was over 80 people just from that group alone. Which meant that they ran out of stuffed turkey just as I got to that station. And I Don't Do Sausages first thing in the day. So I went meatless. But I digress.

I'm in line with a slew of Catholic priests and elderly Catholic parishoners and I'm the youngest person by about 20 years... and I so wanted to ask this question which has recently been plaguing me during my "off hours." I refrained, and am quite proud of myself. But since I don't want to explode with all this refraining and repressing, I'm going to ask my question here, 'cause that's what my blog is for... expressing my opinions and asking the questions that have plagued me since the Dawn of (my) Time, or at least since I first thought of them.

So here's the question.

If it is a sin for human males to masturbate because they are wastefully spilling seed which Could Become Life, why isn't it a sin for females to waste those precious monthly eggs? There are WAY more (like millions?) of those sperm in males, and their bodies can always make more, and now, thanks to Viagra, their bodies DELIVER more WAY past the point where we're comfortable considering the distribution process. Sperm are not a limited resource.

But eggs, on the other hand, are. The female body only has so many of them, and the number varies by female. In addition, the quality of the eggs degrade with age, such that a woman's eggs when she is in her 20's are of a superior quality than are those of a woman in her 40's. And they are of a limited number. Every month that an egg goes unfertilized is another potential life that is literally flushed down the drain. Which is just sad.

So here's my thought. If it is a sin to waste even one of the millions of sperm that males have, is it not a greater sin to waste even one of the only hundreds of eggs that a woman has? Shouldn't we be putting good Catholic girls on The Pill just as soon as they hit puberty so that those precious eggs can be stored and kept for the day when she is ready to have children, ready to allow those eggs to continue on their journey to becoming a human being?

Just a thought. Going back to potting my plants now.

I wonder if the monseignor is still at the restaurant....