Jerome's Interpretation

As to 1 Corinthians 7 verse 1 - 2

St. Jerome explained in his On Marriage and Virginity, From Letter XXII to Eustochium and from the treatise Against Jovinian, “If it is good not to touch a woman, it is bad to touch one, for there is no opposite of goodness but badness”.

My NIV Bible says in 1 Corinthians 7 '1Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry ( or have sexual relations with a woman ). 2But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.'

I understand Jerome's translation as ' ..for there's virtue but no vice in it.' If it is good not to touch a woman, it is bad to touch one, but in reality it is good to touch a woman, so it is not bad. Because there's only virtue in having sex, but no vice in it.