Are dirty jokes always grievously sinful?

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If we make dirty jokes, is it always grievously sinful? Or does it depend on the joke, context, etc. I don’t personally find them funny, but I hear them and am wondering how they would be categorized. I am uncomfortable telling them or even listening to them really. Thanks for your (name removed by moderator)ut.

 

[Bluegoat]

There is an interesting passage in The Screwtape Letters about this.

I think the sin involved can vary widely depending on the circumstances and the people involved. And the joke too.

 

[Evanslaw]

First question: what’s a dirty joke? If it uses bad language it’s one thing, if it disparages a person or group it’s another. The hurtfulness is the criteria for me, that and excessive use of scatalogical language. Blonde jokes rarely are worth telling, and the same applies to Polak and ni***r jokes. They belittle other people and make the teller and his audience feel superior. That turns us away from love of God and our fellow man.

Next is the term ‘greivous.’ I don’t think many jokes rise to that height, unless they are told maliciously to a person in an intentional effort to hurt the hearer.

Finally, some jokes are so outlandishly funny that we can see thru the stereotype and just laugh at the human condition. We all need to laugh at ourselves and mankind more often.

Pat Evans

 

[remjsmom76]

I dont find them sinful, Im not sure if they are. I think so long as it doesnt degrade discriminate, or cause some kind of harm to others, then its ok. I personally dont find some jokes funny. When being said. My husband brings home jokes from work. His workers always tell him the crudest jokes and he will tell me and well call me the party pooper, but I just dont find them funny.

 

[Cecilianus]

Assuming that by “dirty” joke you mean a sexual joke, then it depends. If the joke simply degrades sex, then it should be avoided (and is venially sinful if your intention is to degrade the wonderful act). However, most humor arises from incongruity, and placing sex in an incongruous position can be funny without degrading the real thing - it can even have a cathartic function when one ridicules the degraded sexuality of the culture’s standards, by emphasizing the contrast between the beauty of the marital embrace and the silliness of the “sexual revolution”.

 

[quasimodo]

dirty jokes are not as sinful a puns or knock-knock jokes

 

[PJM]

If we make dirty jokes, is it always grievously sinful? Or does it depend on the joke, context, etc. I don’t personally find them funny, but I hear them and am wondering how they would be categorized. I am uncomfortable telling them or even listening to them really. Thanks for your (name removed by moderator)ut.

***Actuallly the norm would be that they are not Mortal sins, all though the possibility of them being so might exist? it would be an unusual set of circumstances.

It is a stupid, bad, evil and unnecessary habit that should neither be practiced, condoned or particiapted in.

Having shared this, I personally have often failed to take my own advice:blush:***

Love and prayers

 

[WackBob]

I have a good friend that is a protestant but isn’t well educated about the sacredness of sex and how telling jokes like these degrade it. He knows I don’t like them and has asked me why I think them wrong but I wasn’t able to give a helpful answer to him. He’s very open to things I say but I’m just not sure on how to explain to him that jokes like “thats what she said type of stuff” is just disgusting and degrading. How should I go about explaining this to him?

 

[TheWhoFreak]

I have a good friend that is a protestant but isn’t well educated about the sacredness of sex and how telling jokes like these degrade it. He knows I don’t like them and has asked me why I think them wrong but I wasn’t able to give a helpful answer to him. He’s very open to things I say but I’m just not sure on how to explain to him that jokes like “thats what she said type of stuff” is just disgusting and degrading. How should I go about explaining this to him?

If the jokes he makes are jokes that involve intercourse as the subject matter, ask him how he would feel if someone used that joke to describe him and his future wife.

If he’s more of a “that’s what she said” person, tell him to think about what he’s really saying and how gross it is that he’s insinuating that he had sex with someone’s girl.

If he doesn’t fit either of those categories, ask him if Jesus would laugh at that joke.

 

[PJM]

=TheWhoFreakIf the jokes he makes are jokes that involve intercourse as the subject matter, ask him how he would feel if someone used that joke to describe him and his future wife.

If he’s more of a “that’s what she said” person, tell him to think about what he’s really saying and how gross it is that he’s insinuating that he had sex with someone’s girl.

If he doesn’t fit either of those categories, ask him if Jesus would laugh at that joke.

Friend have you considered that “dirty jokes” redicule God’s most prized Creation? [Us!] That they belittle the most beautiful and meaninful aspect of married love? [Marriage cement that is open to procreation] and that they place us on a level of animal lust? [No mind, intellect of freewill required here.]

Love and prayers,

 

[TheWhoFreak]

Friend have you considered that “dirty jokes” redicule God’s most prized Creation? [Us!] That they belittle the most beautiful and meaninful aspect of married love? [Marriage cement that is open to procreation] and that they place us on a level of animal lust? [No mind, intellect of freewill required here.]

Love and prayers,

How did I state that I was ok with them? I don’t like dirty jokes. Sure, they’re funny but they are more disgusting and vile than humorous. And besides, things can be absolutely hilarious without sinking down to that level (Monty Python, at least for the most part, comes to mind).