Conjugal sex

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According the Catholic teaching, the wife and the husband can be full naked during the intercourse?
 
I thought this was going to be a thread about conjugal visits in prison.
 
I wasnt sure where this thread was going, but respectfully wonder where the OP got the idea that married folks couldnt be naked during intercourse?
 
Some cultural beliefs are such that it is sinful for the man and woman to see each other fully naked. This would be a cultural belief, however, and not Church teaching.
 
Irish_Becca said:
Some cultural beliefs are such that it is sinful for the man and woman to see each other fully naked. This would be a cultural belief, however, and not Church teaching.
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Which cultures? My understanding is that this is the case for Hindus but that it obviously does not apply to married couples. Ever see a Karma Sutra?
 
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I wasnt sure where this thread was going, but respectfully wonder where the OP got the idea that married folks couldnt be naked during intercourse?
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Weren’t the puritans in colonial America believers in such thoughts? I read during my college years of a ‘wedding’ or ‘marital’ garment worn by the wife specifically during relations. It facilitated relations without the ‘shame’ of nudity.
 
There’s a line in the movie “The Leopard” where Burt Lancaster plays a Sicilian prince during the Garibaldi era, and he makes a comment about the number of children he’s had with his wife, but that he’s never seen her naked. I have read a number of references to the fact that at times and places in Europe, the moral teaching was so strict that couples had intercourse through a hole in a sheet between them. I used to think this was an “urban legend,” but I’ve seen it referred to a number of times. It was not, as far as I know, a Church teaching. Not that joyful physical pleasure between spouses was anything the Church particularly wanted to think about, certainly not with terms like “rendering the marriage debt.”
 
Mattapoisett64 said:
There’s a line in the movie “The Leopard” where Burt Lancaster plays a Sicilian prince during the Garibaldi era, and he makes a comment about the number of children he’s had with his wife, but that he’s never seen her naked. I have read a number of references to the fact that at times and places in Europe, the moral teaching was so strict that couples had intercourse through a hole in a sheet between them. I used to think this was an “urban legend,” but I’ve seen it referred to a number of times. It was not, as far as I know, a Church teaching. Not that joyful physical pleasure between spouses was anything the Church particularly wanted to think about, certainly not with terms like “rendering the marriage debt.”
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Having sex through a sheet was something recommended in Victorian-era anti-sex literature. While it is certain there were those who took a dim view of the marital embrace, this was more of a cultural attitude or a personal opinion far removed from what the Church actually taught.
 
Jguerra said:
Weren’t the puritans in colonial America believers in such thoughts? I read during my college years of a ‘wedding’ or ‘marital’ garment worn by the wife specifically during relations. It facilitated relations without the ‘shame’ of nudity.
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Maybe, but not in Catholic teachings, heck, I ve seen posts here where some think it’s a big deal if a wife wears anything that might be conidered too sexy to bed. 🤷
 
Jguerra said:
Weren’t the puritans in colonial America believers in such thoughts? I read during my college years of a ‘wedding’ or ‘marital’ garment worn by the wife specifically during relations. It facilitated relations without the ‘shame’ of nudity.
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Puritans in colonial America were Protestants.
 
SCH said:
According the Catholic teaching, the wife and the husband can be full naked during the intercourse?
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Clothing is a physical barrier, so I think that they must be full naked during the intercourse.
I think that they can be naked also in other times, when they have not sex.
 
Weren’t Adam and Eve naked in the Garden of Eden? It wasn’t until they sinned that they saw their nakedness. God’s initial creation of perfect humans did not include clothing and God saw that it was good…teachccd 🙂
 
Mattapoisett64 said:
There’s a line in the movie “The Leopard” where Burt Lancaster plays a Sicilian prince during the Garibaldi era, and he makes a comment about the number of children he’s had with his wife, but that he’s never seen her naked. I have read a number of references to the fact that at times and places in Europe, the moral teaching was so strict that couples had intercourse through a hole in a sheet between them. I used to think this was an “urban legend,” but I’ve seen it referred to a number of times. It was not, as far as I know, a Church teaching. Not that joyful physical pleasure between spouses was anything the Church particularly wanted to think about, certainly not with terms like "rendering the marriage debt."
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  • marriage debt
  • deposit of faith
  • economy of salvation
  • saving plan
Who are these people? Theologians or accountants?
 
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