K-Lo,
it may seem like quibbling but it’s actually key to the Church’s
teaching on sexual morality: The conjugal act has to be OPEN to life,
not “directed toward” life. Having to be directed toward procreation
would imply that it’s wrong to enjoy the marital embrace during
infertile periods or during pregnancy or after menopause or once it was
discovered that one of the spouses is infertile. Yet the Church freely
allows all these things.
In truth, when the conjugal embrace is what it is meant to be, it is
directed toward the beloved. It is a gift of love to him or her.
Children are its primary fruit, but not its only fruit, and not its
direct aim. We do not use our spouses for procreation.

This is so over now.