Confessing mortal sins against the 6th commandment, how specific?

[OurLadysServant]

Hi!
Wanted to start a thread that may help those struggling to confess impurity this Easter and for the Divine Mercy Novena;

I want to hypothetically ask a question on IF a person needed to confess;

Let’s hypothetically say, someone was bound to various mortal sins of impurity for more than a decade.

How does someone confess mortal sins against this commandment if they all vary in terms of gravity, type, scandal, seriousness, circumstances, context, and consequences

What is an example of too vague, or spot on without being too explicit.

(Sins of impurity can also vary, due to exposure to the media, Universities and colleges can be soul destroying, bad friends, scandal, others being led to sin, thoughts with consent, etc, its probably the most embarressing and difficult commandment to confess hypothetically, and can be a source of temptation or scandal to the Confessor possibly as he listens.)

I’m just giving a list here to show that this commandment varies greatly in terms of context and gravity:
The types of this sin vary; adultery, fornication, masturbation, pornography, sodomy, bestiality, nudity, immodest fashion, whether others knew/ were present / were encouraged or enticed to sin, If someone was being severly onslought by the devil they could be suffering from impure temptations against anything or anyone,

Even a person growing up as a child could have lived through something involving something that is minorly immodest but still needs to be confessed,

So my hypothetical question would be; what advice does the church have for people confessing this commandment;

 

[Bookcat]

All mortal sins need to be confessed in number and kind (and circumstance the changes the kind…ie it was a Church you burned down and thus sacrilege…the fact that one is married needs to be included say for sexual sins (one can add that in the beginning) …)

One can not just say for example " I sinned against 6th commandment"…(I am referring when one is confessing the sins in a normal confession - not say when they have already be confessed and absolved and one is simply adding such as an addition such as "and all the sins of life -especially against chastity)

Jimmy Akin Senior Apologist of Catholic Answers jimmyakin.com/2007/03/specific_confes.html

(the confessor can assist one…and also remember he has heard so much over time no need for anyone to fear)

(and if one forgets a mortal sin - one is to confess it in the next confession…again I am referring to “unconfessed” mortal sin that one was forgotten)

 

[littlestsouls2]

Fr. Alfred Wilson wrote the following words in his book, ‘Pardon and Peace’:

"When confessing sins of impurity, it is neither necessary nor wise to go into details unless the circumstances change the nature of the sin. All that is required is to tell the kind of sin and the number of times it was committed. “Immodest touches once” would include any number of such touches at the one session. In this matter quite a lot is taken for granted; if, for example, intercourse is confessed, it is taken for granted that there were accompaniments; and so it is unnecessary to mention the fact. The time element need not, as a rule, be mentioned; because it makes no essential difference whether the sinful acts endured for five minutes or five hours.

In confessing sins of impurity, the rule is “No unnecessary circumstances, please!” In other words, there is no need to make them black — which statement can be taken in two ways with equal truth."

A priest advised me to simply “pour my heart out” in Confession; there is no need to prepare a clever list beforehand - God knows our heart. If we leave anything out, it is much better to leave it to God, asking Him to bring this to our attention if it is the case. I used to try so hard in Confession to remember every little detail that it nearly did my head in! Confession was never made to be demanding; we should diligently cast aside such burdens and put our trust in God, Who will inspire us to confess our sins as we ought, just as He gave us the light to acknowledge them in the first place. Pax.

 

[InNomineDomini]

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What is an example of too vague, or spot on without being too explicit.

Franky, I would go to the following examination of conscience, and look at the questions for the sixth and ninth commandments: ewtn.com/library/prayer/examconscience.htm

I think everything is well and truly covered there, and a lot of the other things you mention are simply subsections of the above.