=VeronicaM;7750688]Would I go to hell if I engaged in non-procreative sex with my spouse?
In other words, is marital, non-procreative sex a venial or mortal sin?
It is an “intrinsic evil” always and everytime a Mortal sin.
2352 By masturbation is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure. “Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action.” “The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose.” For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of “the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved.”
To form an equitable judgment about the subjects’ moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety or other psychological or social factors that lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability.
The difference in this and what you ptopose is getting assistance from your spouce…
1652 “By its very nature the institution of marriage and married love is ordered to the procreation and education of the offspring and it is in them that it finds its crowning glory.”
Children are the supreme gift of marriage and contribute greatly to the good of the parents themselves. God himself said: “It is not good that man should be alone,” and “from the beginning [he] made them male and female”; wishing to associate them in a special way in his own creative work, God blessed man and woman with the words: “Be fruitful and multiply.” Hence, true married love and the whole structure of family life which results from it, without diminishment of the other ends of marriage, are directed to disposing the spouses to cooperate valiantly with the love of the Creator and Savior, who through them will increase and enrich his family from day to day.
2366 Fecundity is a gift, an end of marriage, for conjugal love naturally tends to be fruitful. A child does not come from outside as something added on to the mutual love of the spouses, but springs from the very heart of that mutual giving, as its fruit and fulfillment. So the Church, which is “on the side of life,” teaches that “it is necessary that each and every marriage act remain ordered per se to the procreation of human life.” “This particular doctrine, expounded on numerous occasions by the Magisterium, is based on the inseparable connection, established by God, which man on his own initiative may not break, between the unitive significance and the procreative significance which are both inherent to the marriage act.”
The Reason for this is that the ability to have children is a Gift of and from God. Notice for example in Genesis after the “fall” Eve gave bith to a son and CREDITED God for this event.
Abram in the Old Testament and John the Baptist [to show then and now] both became fathers because of God’s direct intervention when they and there spouces were beyond child-bearing age.
Evey sexual encounter of man and women in unprotected sexual union does not result in a pregnancy precisely because God has a PLAN; a ROLE in every pregnancy.
All life and death issues MUST remain controller by God our Creator; the Giver of Life and the taker of life.
THANKS for asking; you may wish to discuss this with your priest-confessor?
God Bless you BOTH!
Pat
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