Is Masturbation Against Catholicism
The Vatican has condemned a leading American nun for writing a book in which she praises female masturbation and approves divorce and gay sex and marriage, warning that the book must not be used by catholic educators. The Vatican's criticism of Sister Margaret Farley, a professor emeritus of Christian ethics at Yale University, comes amid escalating tension with America's nuns, after the Holy See accused them of preaching "radical feminist" ideas. In a statement approved by pope Benedict and issued on Monday, the Vatican's doctrinal office claims Farley's book, Just Love, a Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics, "ignores the constant teaching of the Magisterium or, where it is occasionally mentioned, treats it as one opinion among others". The statement singles out Farley's claim that many women "have found great good in self-pleasuring — perhaps especially in the discovery of their own possibilities for pleasure — something many had not experienced or even known about in their ordinary sexual relations with husbands or lovers. Masturbation, she concludes, "actually serves relationships rather than hindering them".
Catholic Double Standard?
German Catholic bishops’ leader calls for change to Catechism on sexuality – Catholic World Report
Paul Flaman. September 21, It is distinguished from such things as involuntary "nocturnal emissions" and sexual arousal, as well as certain spontaneous behaviors of very young children and animals. This article focuses on solitary masturbation. According to certain surveys most men and many women have masturbated during adolescence. These surveys do not always indicate how often this occurred, how the individuals felt about this, and whether they thought this behavior was good. In any case, what many people do or have done, occasionally or frequently consider, e.
Why Is Masturbation Wrong?
Catholics are often stereotyped as being uptight about sex, and it's true that the Church maintains very conservative official positions on a lot of sex topics, from masturbation to birth control. The fundamental Catholic teaching about sex is that it has two purposes : unitive and procreative. Unitive means that it seeks to unite married partners in love and intimacy; procreative, that it carries the potential to make a baby. If a sex act is missing either of these two elements, it's "disordered" and sinful.
I'm not sure how this came to be a sin, but apparently it is although there's no specific passage in the bible to support this. I understand Catholicism functions with more tradition than Christianity, so if it's a unique tradition then alright. Here are some things that I've gathered from either knowing Catholics specifically Roman Catholics, which I understand can be quite different with their views , or researching this:. Having a wet dream IS a sin, regardless of your control over it or not.