Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

George Bernard Shaw
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The quotation above is believed to be written by the Roman poet Juvenal. The Pope's opinion on sex is irrelevant because, as he himself stated, he knows nothing about it.

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