Fellow Catholics: Is masturbation over the same sex two sins?

Question

Would masturbating over the same sex be a double sin?
That is, the sin of homosexuality, and the sin of lust.

Thank you for your clarification.

Answer 1

The Catholic church believes that the ACT of homosexual sex is a sin, NOT homosexuality itself. So it would only be the masturbation that would be "sinful" by the strictest of rules. Not that most Catholics I know agree with it.

Answer 2

Yes it seems like they would both be sins, 2 sins in one or possibly one leading to the other. One sin of masterbation and the other would be giving into homosexual thoughts which are sinful. One sin breeds another, you get a lustfull homosexual thought and you give into that temptation and go further and masterbate. I hope and pray that we avoid the near occasion of sin for serious sin can cut us from God.

Answer 3

Only a catholic would care about this as being a "double sin".

Answer 4

Yep. The Catholics consider wanting to a sin too. And hey even if you don't actually masterbate, you are sinning just for wanting to do it.

Answer 5

Probably, according to Catholics.


In which case, most people are in trouble. Hasn't everyone done that at least once?

Answer 6

Q; 11. Most psychologist speak of masturbation as normal, healthy thing. They even indicate that it’s unhealthy not to masterbate. Why doesn’t the Church get with it?

A: We must realize that without the perspective of God’s plan in the beginning, and without understanding that Christ came into the world to restore that plan, we’ll inevitably be looking at our experience of sexual desire through the lens of our fallen humanity. From this perspective, masturbation does seem like a “normal” and even “healthy” thing.

It’s normal to be sexually aroused, right? It’s “normal” to want to “relieve” sexual tension, right? If you have an itch, you don’t just let it drive you crazy - you scratch it right? In fact, only the oddball would choose to endure the itch without scratching it, right? So it could actually be “unhealthy” to let sexual tension build up without “relieving” it, right?

There’s a certain logic here. In fact, it’s virtually impossible to understand why masturbation is wrong within this paradigm. What’s needed - not just to understand the masturbation issue but in order to understand the truth of sexuality and, in turn, the true meaning of love and life - is a complete paradigm shift.

We’ve inherited a worldview (modern rationalism) that’s closed in on itself. We’re all a bunch of omphaloskeptics (a fancy word for “navel-gazers”). We can’t see beyond the temporal and immanent to the eternal and transcendent.

We look at the stars, and rather than pondering the expansive grandeur of the Creator, we reduce the universe to mathematical equations. We encounter another body, and rather than seeing the revelation of a person made in the image and likeness of God, we see a thing to use and consume for our own gratification. We encounter the deep waters of sexual desire, and rather than seeing our call to share in the divine mystery by swimming in the pure waters of life-giving love with an “other,” we dive headfirst into our own shallow, stagnant swamp and get stuck in the sludge of self-indulgent isolation.

As we’ve noted, sex is symbolic. It’s meant to be an efficacious sign of God’s free, total, faithful, fruitful love. It’s meant to be a human participation in the divine Communion of Persons. Yes, sex is meant to point us beyond the stars to ultimate Reality - God.

Masturbation, however easy a habit it is to fall into only throws us back on ourselves. It exemplifies a worldview devoid of the transcendent otherness of God. It symbolizes self-pity, fear of abandoning oneself to another, and the utter sterility of isolation.

Such behavior speaks very pointedly about a person’s concept of his or her own sexuality and, in turn, about his or her whole person. It speaks of an anxiety toward self and others, an inner frustration with the truth of one’s own being, and an unwillingness or inability to make a sincere gift of self to another. The fantasy life that often accompanies masturbation speaks of a dissatisfaction with and withdrawal from reality.