Poor Old Augustine

St Augustine gets a bad press when it comes to sexuality. In fact he defended the goodness of marriage and procreation against the Manichaeans. He also said especially in De Bono Conjugali that sexual pleasure is by no means sinful in itself. But, against the Pelagians, he said that there is such a thing as concupiscence which is not the same thing as sexual attraction. Rather it is the thing that leads us to selfishness, fornication and adultery.