Throughout the history of Christianity, the use of birth control has been a very controversial subject. Pope Paul IV decided to appoint a special commission to reevaluate the prohibition on birth control the Catholic Church had for a very long time. When Pope Paul IV spoke in 1968, he did not say what people wanted to hear and what people expected. His views on birth control were very different from what was considered the status quo. In the encyclical, Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul IV strongly asserted that sexual intercourse has two meanings. Sexual intercourse has a unitive aspect, in which the action brings two people together, and a procreative aspect, in which the action produces children. Pope Paul IV stated that there is an inseparable
