No, I am replying to a commenter that thinks there is a lot of warning before the seed is spilled, apparently based on the warning that comes at the end of the act. In which case, it must be regarded as pollution begun, not just danger, the evil effect has already started! Church Doctors thought it was proximate danger from the onset!
(1) Sex acts take variable lengths of time. Therefore, you have no clue going into the act whether this particular act will end quickly or not. It is the fact that some of the acts in marriage go from no excitement to extreme excitement in a very brief period of time that make these acts so dangerous. And even if the majority of acts take minutes, the very fact that a non- insignificant percentage of marital acts finish in a short length of time immediately demonstrates that unnatural acts are proximate danger of pollution.
(2) It is not your ability to “control” yourself that determines whether a sin is a sin. Rather it those objective factors that you are having to fight against in order to not spill the seed in the first place that make the act “proximate occasion of sin.” It is the pleasure which is making you not able to think clearly, the fact that you do not know when exactly the act will end, the temptation to continue performing the act, random error because your partner might just be off that day, these are what make these acts so wicked and always and everywhere proximate occasion of sin according to the Doctors of the Church.
(3) This is flat out false, men cannot always accurately judge when they are close to finishing the act! It is possible for your level of excitement to change very rapidly, very quickly. Sex acts can finish very rapidly, even when there was little excitement before!
You cannot judge when the end of the act will occur because sex is not something that linearly increases in pleasure up until the end of the act, the pleasure has highs and lows as it oscillates towards the maximum at the end of the act! There is no way whatsoever to know with certainty when the next “high” will come, it could come very rapidly when you are least expecting it! This is precisely why it is proximate occasion of sin from the onset of the act.
Also, even if people knew when the end of the act would come, it would still be danger of pollution! People sleeping in the same bed before marriage also know when exactly fornication will occur (it occurs after your cloths come off, so there is a lot of warning), however, nonetheless, it is the the fact that a man is not thinking clearly and is tempted to continue further that makes sleeping in the same bed before marriage proximate occasion of sin. Regardless of whether you successfully resist, it is not whether you resist/ control yourself that makes it danger, it is the fact that you have to resist in the first place that makes it near occasion of sin! In exactly the same way, it is not whether the act has warning that makes unnatural acts proximate occasion of pollution, it is proximate danger of sin because you are not thinking clearly when in the height of pleasure, the warmth of the area of the body, etc!
