Catholic religion?

Question

Does the catholic religion teach that it is wrong to masterbate?

Answer 1

It's natural, as long as it doesn't interfere with a healthy sex life, there's nothing at all wrong with it.

What's wrong is how a religious group can deny this.

Answer 2

Yes.

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

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.

Masturbation is contrary to the human dignity of the person and anyone about whom the person has lustful thoughts, and the dignity of human sexuality.

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

Yes because it's not what sex is intended by God to be, it shoiuld be directed toward another in marriage because that's love and for the procreative purpose. Masturbation is selfish and unnatural.
you can have a look in the catechism of the Catholic Church for a more full answer.

Answer 4

After 18 years of Catholic Parochial school, no priest, nun or monk ever taught me that masturbation was wrong.

So, I'd say "No."

Answer 5

What a good question - I don't think I was ever taught about it but somewhere I still managed to decide for myself it was sinful and then get tied up in knots about trying (and failing) to stop.

Answer 6

most every religion uses guilt as it's tool for motivation.


religion can and sometimes will:

Make you believe they will suffer greatly if you do not respond positively to their request(s).

Call on your guilt to respond to their requests, even when it means violating your rights.

Respond to your irrational self by reinforcing your irrational thinking, giving you a sense of blame, for past, present, or future actions.

Build up a verbal or imagined scenario that portrays you at fault for inaction, thus guaranteeing your sense of guilt and your willingness to do anything to alleviate it.

Accuse you of misdeeds, words, or actions to arouse your sense of guilt and make you believe you are the one with a problem in an interpersonal relationship difficulty. (This effectively takes the pressure off of them.)

Reinforce your negative self-perceptions, encouraging you to be guilt ridden and self-judgmental for their benefit.

Build a case with moral absolutes to convince you of the ``right way'' to do things, avoiding that negative feeling of guilt for themselves.

Set up situations for you in which you will believe your alternatives are limited to that which results in the least sense of guilt.

Feign or fake hardship, illness, discomfort, unhappiness, incompetence, or other negative behavior to arouse your sense of guilt and have you take over those tasks, or duties bringing imagined negative consequences for them

Threaten negative consequences, like going to jail, to the hospital, to the juvenile detention center, failing school, dying, or divorcing you. This manipulation uses your guilt to benefit them..

Answer 7

Yes it is considered such outside of the sexual act within marriage but it is usually considered a venial sin.

Answer 8

Not only catholic... all religions say that...

Answer 9

I dont know. Maybe you should consult a catholic.

Answer 10

i frankly don't know...i mean they don't even open it as a topic in churches..but i know its wrong for 18 below..especially to girls co'z its not nice to do...and i think its only normal for guys..just as long they don't harm anyone and uses teenagers as a prospect of desire and sex...you know what i mean..