The male/female complementarity in creation is a truth written into the very nature of human beings. God says that is is not good for man to be alone - it does not mean that he could not be alone, but it wasn't good. The tendency if one were to be alone is to become self-absorbed.
God created us to know, love, and serve him - not to know, love, and serve each other. However, we need to know, love, and serve each other, not as an end in itself but, in a sense, as practice. If we do not love our neighbor, we cannot love God. Our neighbor we can see, but we cannot see God.
Husbands and wives give themselves entirely over to each other - in this way they sanctify themselves because each of them has learned to be self-giving. They have stripped away some of their inherited selfishness through Original Sin and became one who is thus able to love God more.
Anything within the marriage that is a return to selfishness, things like unfaithfulness, contraception, or pornography - not only hurts if not destroys the beautiful self-giving - it also directly tears up a person's ability to love God with his heart, soul, and mind.
God added complementarity in creation, indeed as a good gift - but most especially as a means for his people to prepare to gladly give themselves in love back to God.
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