The authors of 101 Places To Have Sex Before You Die, which is published in Britain later this year, suggests that couples take the risk of making love in the booths because “the odds are the Pope is pretty displeased with you already”. But the humorous book, the latest in a series of “to do before you die” releases, has provoked anger among some Catholic groups.
“This is sick stuff and the authors and the book publishers should be ashamed of themselves,” a spokesman for the New York Archdiocese said.
“Let's hope the reaction from people is… strong."
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League campaign group, attacked the morality of anyone who might take the book’s advice.
“The kind of people who would have sex in the confessional would also have sex in a graveyard. And I don't mean with each other," he told the New York Daily Post.
A spokesman for publishers Simon & Schuster said 101 Places To Have Sex Before You Die was clearly intended to be light hearted.
“This is one entry in a book that includes 100 other equally facetious references. We think readers will understand the spirit of the book."
In the confessional entry of the book authors Marsha Normandy and Joseph St. James write: "The only sex the Church doesn't frown upon is the married, heterosexual and birth control-free kind, so the odds are the pope is pretty displeased with you already.
"Instead of carrying all that mortal sin around with you for weeks at a time until you can make it to confession, why not combine both with a quick and tidy 2-for-1 session?"
They advise avoiding Sundays, Christmas Eve and Easter, and warn that the drawbacks include "splinters, ex-communication, and Peeping (Father) Tom."
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