Rhonheimer's Suicide

Rhonheimer sees why a HIV-infected husband would choose to wear a condom. An accurate representation of the practical reasoning of the husband, as exhibited in what he does in choosing to wear a condom, would be along the following lines: I must wear a condom in order to ejaculate into it rather than into my wife’s vagina so as to prevent the transmission of HIV The “so as to” identifies the further intention with which he chooses to wear the condom; the immediate object of his choice is that of ensuring ejaculation into the condom rather than into his wife’s vagina. Gormally seeks to show that an essential element of the behavioral pattern required for intercourse to be of the generative kind is ejaculation by the man into the woman’s reproductive
tract. The effect of his doing so, Gormally believes, is radically to disconnect the notion of the procreative meaning of sexual intercourse from any reasonable criterion of what is to count as generative behavior, and by the same stroke to remove the traditional content from the notion of the unitive meaning of intercourse.