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***** Expand on Catholic teaching on Oral Sex WARNING!! Adult Content |
jared | Wednesday, November 9, 2011 |
Question: Can you expand on your response on: allexperts.com |
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Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OMSM(r), L.Th., D.D.
***** Dear Jared: There is nothing contradictory about this when you understand the theology of sexual expression. Pope John Paul II, in his Theology of the Body does not specifically mention oral sex but he does make it clear that that when spouses act to merely satisfy the sexual needs of the other there is damage to the communion that is suppose to be affirm in the marital embrace.
Pope Pius XII wrote:
Oral sex outside of foreplay or afterplay in which the man ejaculates outside of his wife's vagina is not morally permissible. The marital embrace is meant to be a mutual self-giving. That goal fails if the couple uses each other as mere sexual objects to receive sexual pleasure. Oral sex for its own purpose is not a mutual self-giving, it is "giving" only. In effect, it is a form of masturbation, that is, the spouse masturbating the other. Mutual self-giving is not achieved in this way. "Now, Lord, You know that I take this wife of mine not because of lust, but for a noble purpose." —Tobit 8:7 The reason this is tied to the man is that a man's climax is inherently directed to the possibility of new life. The man is the progenitor of new life. Therefore, it is never permissible for him to "spill his seed" outside the vagina of his wife. The wife's orgasm is not so linked to life. This is the case even if pregnancy is not possible. There are two purposes of sex, procreation and the bonding of the spouses in a mutual self-giving. The mutual self-giving and bond that is one of the purposes of marital sex is not accomplished if the man ejaculates outside of his wife's vagina. The nature of mutual self-giving and the bond created by the marital embrace remains intact even when the purpose of procreation is not possible. Even within marriage, not all sex acts are permitted; there is a kind of chastity in marriage. Any sex act tht degrades the human person is not permitted, such as sado-masochism, bondage, domination, rape fantasies, and the like. The husband demanding sex when the wife does not wish it and the wife using sex as a weapon to withhold to manipulate her husband also degrades the human person and violates the mutual self-giving that the marital embrace is meant to be. Marital sex is a holy act when does with marital chastity. It is a sublime image of the relationship between Christ and His Church. This inherent purpose of sex that God created sex to be is part of why certain sects, like Satanist, use sex as a form of worship. This is perverted but it does relate to the sublime reality of the sexual faculity that God meant only for marriage. In today's world, most of the world worships sex. Sex is more important that anything else. That is why couples will marry outside of the Church if the Church says they are not eligible for marriage. These couples apparently are willing to risk their souls to hell rather than do the right thing. Some do not marry at all and live in concubinage and risk their souls to hell in that way. None of this is what sex is to be. Sex in marriage is to be an embrace that is mutually self-giving, not mutually stimulating. To behave morally within marriage should not be a problem. There is no reason why a man cannot always ejaculate in his wife's vagina. If there is some medical reason why that is not possible, then abstinance must be practice. If one cannot abstain, that is a sure sign that the person has a perverted view of sex, seeking sexual pleasure for its own sake, and has a deep moral problem of lacking all four cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance (restraint), and fortitude (courage). St. Paul instructs us:
Do not allow Satan to tempt you through lack of self-control, to violate the virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. Satan would like nothing better than to get us to lose virtue. The marital embrace is to be virtuous. God Bless, Footer Notes: This forum is for general questions on the faith. See specific Topic Forums below: Spiritual Warfare, demons, the occult go to our Spiritul Warfare Q&S Forum. Liturgy Questions go to our Liturgy and Liturgical Law Q&A Forum Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) Questions go to our Divine Office Q&A Forum Defenfing the Faith Questions go to our Defending the Faith Q&A Forum Church History Questions go to our Church History Q&A Forum
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