Serious question: Does the Catholic Church still consider masturbation a sin?

Question

rosbif, I am not Catholic either (not that there's anything wrong with being one). I am simply curious.

dundee, slash, cindy - I know I wrote "serious questoion," but thanks for the laughs. It's been a bad morning for me so far.

John G., does that mean Catholicism thinks it morally questionable for a married couple to have oral sex?

So you don't think Catholic morals have changed carl? The Catholics still have the same morals as they did during the age of the Spanish Inquisition? They still have the morals epitomized by Torquemada?

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.

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

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Yes it's still considered mortally sinful but there can be mitigating circumstances, as anxiety, depression, immaturity that can render it venially sinful or perhaps even no sin at all.

John a former poster is not right.

For a mortal sin to take place all the criteria have to be at hand of course.
1.Grave matter (sex outside of the marriage act is always grave matter even in impure thoughts)
2.Full knowledge of the sinfulness.
3. Full consent of the will.

Contrary to what many think the Catholic faith and morals have not changed and will not change ever.

Oral sex is allowed in marriage if the marriage act is open to life and we all know how babies are made.

"No one suspects the Spanish Inquisition."
We are sinners still but the Catholic faith and morals is given to us by Jesus.

Answer 3

They've pretty well gotten over that. Technically, masturbation, and ANY OTHER sexual act outside of marriage is a wrong use of sex.

You have to take this from the direction of what the "right use" is. The Church teaches that sexual union between a husband and wife who are open to conception of a child is basically a sacred (maybe even sacramental) act. And so ANY OTHER sexual act, masturbation included, is NOT sacred and consequently out of order MORALLY. The catechism calls masturbation an "offense against chastity."

John Paul II's book, "Theology of the Body," explains the church's teaching. Sin? Probably not. Morally questionable? Yup.

Answer 4

here is a quote direction from the catechism:

2352 By masturbation is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure. "Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action."137 "The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose." For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of "the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved."138

To form an equitable judgment about the subjects' moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety or other psychological or social factors that lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability.

basically it is saying 'yes AND no' - they don't like it, but if read that last part, it says that there can be reasons that make it not so serious....

they are teaching PERFECTION of the whole human person, and understand that perfection is a lifetime process...

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Yes!

Sow a thought; Reap an Act;
Sow an Act; Reap a Character;

Answer 7

masturbation is one of the sins of lust !! Don't forget it is not
always the act but , what is in the heart that makes it a sin in
the eyes of God . This is in all Faiths who put there trust in
Jesus .

Answer 8

why pick on the Catholic church, it's a sin in most religions.

Answer 9

As I'm not a catholic,I really don't care

Answer 10

Yes ,but don't let it worry you ,we're a very understanding bunch on this site and we forgive you!