Are Christians supposed to view oral sex as a sin? and anal sex as well?

Question

I am a Christian (Catholic) and wanted to hear from other Christians about this. I think everyone will have their own words on this touchy issue. It's sort of like the issue of masturbation, but harder to argue i think.

I don't wish to be offesive and get vulgar comments back to me. I wanted to have a mature and biblical conversation here...sort of impossible though...
In the Bible i have only found passages like..."God left them to treat their bodies in the unnatural way"
what does that mean? i thought it meant homosexuality .Is God saying the only sexual relation husband and wife could have is penis-vagina penetration..and everything else is "perverse and unnatural"?
My belief is that a married couple should be allowed to have this kind if sex if neither man nor wife rejects it or feels degraded by it.
The Bible talks about sodomy as a grave sin..yet "sodomy" by defintion could be oral sex even. but in the Bible i would think it only meant man to man anal sex.

Answer 1

Judeo-Christian tradition has taught for thousands of years:
1. Single people should be celibate.
2. Married people should be faithful to each other (adultery is wrong).

The Catholic Church recognizes the power of sex when it teaches, "Sexuality affects all aspects of the human person in the unity of his body and soul."

Chastity means the successful integration of sexuality within the person. A chaste person's body and spirit lives in unity and opposes any behavior that would impair that unity.

The Catholic Church does not have an official stance on types of sex between a married couple. Just about any type of sex is allowable when a man and woman are married, it is consensual and done in moderation.

The purpose of sex is to bring a husband and wife closer and to create human life.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Alot of the answers here agree "According to the Bible" Litany.

About 500 years after the fall of the Roman empire, the Catholic church agreed to a particular style of sex which incidentally was decided by the Monks of a Mission Meeting, hence the word 'Missionary' . The pope gave it the official okee dokee. That is the preferred method. The Old testament forbade pre-marital sex. New Testament is more "forgiving" per se. In the old testament, Odin was struck down for masturbating, and was informed that "it is better to cast your seed into the belly of a whore, than upon the ground." The old testament "laws" were severe and many. Most people weren't able to keep them all. Especially the first 5 books. The was a change, our lord Jesus Christ was a Martyr for our sins and we are forgiven for things we repent for, it's not to be used as a free pass to do whatever we want and then pray it off like hitting the reset button. Believe in the fact that your conscience IS the mind of god telling you right from wrong. Unfortunately he gave us free-will which can doom alot of us.

Answer 3

It is sodomy: How did God view those people?
There were many sins being committed in the earth including human sacrifice. Child sacrifice. War, lieing, murder.
Yet he sent two angels down to see if it was really true.
Counld people really be that grose? Actually read earlier they were friends with the king of Sodom. So who was crying out read Genesis 18:20 consequently God said "the cry of complaint about Sodom and Gomorrah yes it is loud and their sin yes it is very heavy. The angels who are to take care of us was complaining. Look what humans are doing?
So when the angels got there they could see how preverse they were. Not all was homosexuals. Lots two daughters were engaged to be married, to men. But there was a lot of perverseness going on even among married couples. Thats why it is called Sodomy. God caused astroids or whatever to destroy those people. So my guess is he finds that disgusting.

Answer 4

The Bibe says that that nothing is defiled between husband and wife. I believe that what you do in the bed is between you, your wife and God. I do not believe in women on women or man on man sex. However what the two of you decied to do is what you have decieded to do. My self and my wife have anal sex from time to time, not all the time, just some time when the moment is right, and she is in the mood. Also, pray about it, and follow your heart. God will still love you. Moreover, the pleasure in a marrige put together by God is a just pleasure.

Answer 5

My family are from a long Christian background. my Grandmothers brother was very high up in the Church of Scotland, he was one of the most un-christian people I ever met. It's a wonder how him and his wife ever had any children. If it feels natural then what happens behind closed doors between man and wife is between them. I personally don't follow any religion. More of a spiritual person than a faith follower. I tend to see religion as a form of mass control. You cannot have a following of millions of people and expect them to all live the same life and have the same feelings. To do so would be denying who you are. We are all human and as humans, we enjoy the pleasures of sex. Making love with your partner/wife is probably the closest thing to heaven you will find. Be true to yourself and use you religion as a guide.

Answer 6

I am Catholic as well and if you're then this is the teaching of our church.

The church prohibits contraception. ONe biblical tet cited in support of prohibiting contraception or sex without possibiltiy of conception is, the grave sin of Onan, who sought the physical pleasures of sexual acts while preventing the possibility of having children" Whenever he had relations with his brother's widow, he wasted his seed on the ground to avoid contributing offspring for his brother. What he did greatly offended the Lord, and the Lord took his life too"

so yes if not all Christians Catholic Christians shold regard sex without a possibility of conception as immoral and sinful

Answer 7

"officially" and according to the bible, any sexual activity that does not lead to have babies is sin!

now, the true is that sex is a gift of God and those ancient words in the bible were written for people living under other circumstances and a given context

so, the good news: its 21st century and a lot of things have changed since the bible was written. Now we know sex (oral, anal, homoerotic, vaginal, etc) is not a sin, so live your sexuality the way you mind and body feels but responsibly.

Answer 8

Based on the biblical event, any sexual violation against a male is Sodom-y, while against a female is Gomorrah-ish, which God punished the inhabitants of the respective towns with the same namesake, with a natural calamity.

Early Christian colonizers would teach the "missionary style" (facing each other) to couples as part of their evangelical mission to uplift the human dignity of natives or savages who may have patterned their behavioral pattern after animals.

Answer 9

I am a Christian too.I think right inside each of us, there is a sill small voice that talks to us and tell us what is right or wrong. If you want to have oral sex and your conscince says no, then doing it makes it wrong.I still believe that anything sexual done in the confines of marriage is right, but I do not support same sex relationship!

Answer 10

You are right, this is a touchy subject. However, i don't think that it is wrong, AS LONG AS YOU ARE MARRIED.
God created women for man, (in Genesis) because man needed a companion. Not only a companion to fill his emotional needs, but his physical needs.
I believe that as longs as both the husband and wife don't feel degraded, (like you said) and they are right w/ God in their hearts, it's perfectly OK. :)