Rose subscribed to the Church’s teachings that sex was permissible only for making babies, not for intimacy and certainly not for pleasure. After having Teddy, her ninth and last child in February 1932, Rose told Joe she would never have sex with him again. “This idea of yours that there is no romance outside procreation is simply wrong,” Joe said. “It was not part of our contract at the altar. The priest never said that, and the books don’t argue that.”
