Last month, there was an uproar on social media involving an article published at The Gospel Coalition that described Jesus’s relationship with the Church in a graphically detailed comparison to how a man embraces and ejaculates into his wife.

“Christ gives himself to his beloved with extravagant generosity,” Joshua Butler, the author of Beautiful Union wrote after describing a sexual intercourse scene between a man and a woman, “showering his love upon us and imparting his very presence within us. Christ penetrates his church with the generative seed of his Word and the life-giving presence of his Spirit, which takes root within her and grows to bring new life into the world.” Butler called this a “picture of the gospel.”

After the article was published, The Gospel Coalition was pummelled by both conservatives and progressives, demonstrating the extreme inappropriateness of such a graphic depiction that far exceeded anything that could be derived from Scripture. It was blasphemous, to say the least.

Thankfully, the article was removed—and several high-profile endorsers of Butler’s upcoming book which the article was excerpted from were withdrawn. Yet, Butler hasn’t stopped with his weird sex fetish and has published yet another article that’s arguably just as weird, albeit at least not quite as blasphemous. Well, at least this time, it doesn’t seem to include Jesus as the main character of his stranger-than-fiction visual image of bodily fluids. This time, he writes about the use of contraception.

In an article he published, this time on his personal website, titled The Ethics of Contraception, Butler presents two arguments, one for and one against, the use of contraception. First, Butler presents an argument “for” contraception, suggesting that in our modern world, families can participate in God’s blessing of fruitful multiplication while stewarding the size of their family in ways that make sense. He acknowledges that the blessing of fruitful multiplication does not mean every couple is required to have as many kids as possible.

However, Butler also presents an argument “against” contraception, stating that it changes the nature of the sexual act by severing the unitive and procreative dimensions of sex, which are organically connected in the natural act. He argues that this separation impacts not only the procreative dimension but also the unitive dimension, and contraceptive sex is unable to bear witness to the work of the Spirit.

And this is where it gets weird. “Contraception,” Butler writes, “interrupts the full consummation of “one flesh” union. A condom dams up the “river of life,” preventing its life-giving waters from reaching the opposite shore. With a diaphragm, a barrier is placed at the most intimate point of contact, preventing a full reception of the gift within the generative holy space of the womb. Birth control intentionally denies a fruitfulness that points forward to the future hope of the kingdom, in the eschatological abundance of the new creation.”

Now, whether or not you buy the argument that Christians should use contraception, you have to admit that the obsessive manner in which Butler paints graphic sex details in his writings is quite, well, weird, and wreaks of fetish. “River of life,” “opposite shore,” “life-giving waters,” come on. Just give it a rest already.