Condoms & Bubble Gum

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Condoms are forbidden because their use separates the sex act from it’s intended purpose and are said to be in violation of the Natural Law. Why isn’t bubble gum banned for the same reason? This is not a laughing matter!

The enjoyment derived from eating encourages us to nourish the body and sustains life. Without the eating act, human life would cease to exist so this is not a trivial issue. If ever there was grave matter, this is it. Human existence depends entirely on the sex act and the eating act.

To engage in the eating act outside of it’s intended purpose is also a violation of the Natural Law. Can someone explain why chewing bubble gum is not a mortal sin?

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TLM08 said:
To engage in the eating act outside of it’s intended purpose is also a violation of the Natural Law. Can someone explain why chewing bubble gum is not a mortal sin?

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You mean, it isn’t? :eek:

😛

Seriously, I don’t know why gum-chewing isn’t a mortal sin. (It takes a whipping penalty in Singapore, however, which I think is a sign of a highly advanced, civilized society.)

I think it ought to be, though, because it’s a disgusting habit with no redeeming value. 🤷

I hope you are not one of those vulgar people who chews gum in Church.
 
Only if you chew with your mouth open or leaving it stuck to the underside of the pew before communion! 😃

Paul
 
It only becomes a grave sin when chewing continues after the sugar and flavoring is extracted. Only by swallowing the wad can one be redeemed.😃
 
I think smoking is a better example, and I do think it should be a mortal sin.
 
I think it was Pope Alimonius 1st, whose encyclical “The Theology of the Belly” addressed this topic. It seems that as long as the chewer is open to sustenance from the act of chewing gum it is not an explicitly contra-nutritional act.
 
The age-old question remains: Does the cewing gum lose it’s flavor on the bedpost over night?😛
 
I have to go with Watchman.

And a lot of it has to do with intent. Do a lot of people chew gum in order to avoid eating? I thought most people chew gum to freshen breath and because it is good for your teeth. The same way a women can use hormones for medical reasons, even if infertility is a side effect.
 
Paul2274 said:
Only if you chew with your mouth open or leaving it stuck to the underside of the pew before communion! 😃

Paul
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Oh man, why do people do that?? My usual pew has a ton of gum stuck underneath it, and I’m always forgetting and sticking my hand there. (YUCK!!)

And just a few weeks ago, I was in an entirely different pew, in a totally different parish, and had the SAME problem!!! BLEH!!
 
Watchman said:
I think it was Pope Alimonius 1st, whose encyclical “The Theology of the Belly” addressed this topic. It seems that as long as the chewer is open to sustenance from the act of chewing gum it is not an explicitly contra-nutritional act.
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Got a source?
 
The question, really, is whether chewing gum during sex is sinful. I think it should be an automatic excommunication. :nunchuk: :slapfight: :takethat:
 
A better example might bulimia, the act of enjoying food & then ejecting it before completing digestion. Of course, the fact that bulimics are by definition mentally/emotionally unbalanced bears upon their moral guilt.

How about using “unfoods”? Science has brought us fat and oil substitutes that cannot be digested by the human body, deliberately frustrating the body’s natural functions.
 
I know this is a joke but…

Condoms prevent conception. Chewing gum does not prevent nourishment.

🤷
 
Gerard_Nadal said:
The question, really, is whether chewing gum during sex is sinful. I think it should be an automatic excommunication. :nunchuk: :slapfight: :takethat:
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I’ve never considered gum. Usually, I have a leather strap between my teeth.
 
Peter29 said:
I know this is a joke but…

Condoms prevent conception. Chewing gum does not prevent nourishment.

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So what? Natural Family Planning prevents conception too.
Without the “eating act” there will be no “marital act”. Bubble gum separated
the “eating act” from it’s intended purpose according to Natural Law. There is nothing
funny about this!
:cool:
 
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