Is being Sexologist okay?

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I’m a Roman catholic but i really want to be a sexologist, am i allowed to be one even though i’m catholic?
 
Sure. I don’t see how that would be any different than the situation of a gynecologist or a urologist.
 
What’s a sexologist?

But when it comes to sex, we Catholics have the most healthy and liberated view. Read Theology of the Body - it’ll blow your mind. The fallacy that we hate sex or hate the body or reject sex needs to be destroyed. The Catholic Church has the answer to the sexual revolution and it’s evils of artificial contraception, homosexuality, and so-called ‘free’ love.
 
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But when it comes to sex, we Catholics have the most healthy and liberated view. Read Theology of the Body - it’ll blow your mind. The fallacy that we hate sex or hate the body or reject sex needs to be destroyed. The Catholic Church has the answer to the sexual revolution and it’s evils of artificial contraception, homosexuality, and so-called ‘free’ love.
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Such a true statement! Unfortunately, most of the culture is misled by thinking that breaking the natural laws regarding sex will make one more “free”, but this only leads to pain and addiction. They think the Catholic Church is old and out-of-date and needs to “get with the times”. How wrong they are!

Thank you for raising this point.
 
“Sexologists apply tools from several academic fields, such as biology, medicine, psychology, epidemiology, sociology, and criminology. Topics of study include sexual development (puberty), sexual orientation, gender identity, sexual relationships, sexual activities, paraphilias, atypical sexual interests. It also includes the study of sexuality across the lifespan, including child sexuality, puberty, adolescent sexuality, and sexuality among the elderly. Sexology also spans sexuality among the mentally and/or physically disabled. The sexological study of sexual dysfunctions and disorders, including erectile dysfunction, anorgasmia, and pedophilia, are also mainstays.”
 
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“Sexologists apply tools from several academic fields, such as biology, medicine, psychology, epidemiology, sociology, and criminology. Topics of study include sexual development (puberty), sexual orientation, gender identity, sexual relationships, sexual activities, paraphilias, atypical sexual interests. It also includes the study of sexuality across the lifespan, including child sexuality, puberty, adolescent sexuality, and sexuality among the elderly. Sexology also spans sexuality among the mentally and/or physically disabled. The sexological study of sexual dysfunctions and disorders, including erectile dysfunction, anorgasmia, and pedophilia, are also mainstays.”
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Sure, you can be a sexologist. But if you want to be a good Catholic, you’ll have to place Christ at in the centre and summit of your work. You can’t cease being Catholic when you enter the workplace. As a Catholic, one could not encourage immoral sexual behaviour in other people because that would be participating in their sin. Having said that, I’m sure there are Catholics who need help sexually. Maybe that could be your niche market.
 
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“Sexologists apply tools from several academic fields, such as biology, medicine, psychology, epidemiology, sociology, and criminology. Topics of study include sexual development (puberty), sexual orientation, gender identity, sexual relationships, sexual activities, paraphilias, atypical sexual interests. It also includes the study of sexuality across the lifespan, including child sexuality, puberty, adolescent sexuality, and sexuality among the elderly. Sexology also spans sexuality among the mentally and/or physically disabled. The sexological study of sexual dysfunctions and disorders, including erectile dysfunction, anorgasmia, and pedophilia, are also mainstays.”
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Sure, you can be a sexologist. But if you want to be a good Catholic, you’ll have to place Christ at in the centre and summit of your work. You can’t cease being Catholic when you enter the workplace. As a Catholic, one could not encourage immoral sexual behaviour in other people because that would be participating in their sin. Having said that, I’m sure there are Catholics who need help sexually. Maybe that could be your niche market.
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This is likely to create a major problem. Not all people share Catholic views of sexual morality. Would a Catholic sexologist be restricted to work within the Catholic moral beliefs or would he/she be able to incorporate their patient’s moral beliefs?
 
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This is likely to create a major problem. Not all people share Catholic views of sexual morality. Would a Catholic sexologist be restricted to work within the Catholic moral beliefs or would he/she be able to incorporate their patient’s moral beliefs?
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I can only write what I would do. I would feel morally bound to restrict the work because I would sin by helping unmarried people or homosexuals to have sex. In other words, I believe a Catholic sexologist could only help heterosexual married couples.
 
Jamie5 said:
you realize the great irony and hypocrisy of your statement right?
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What irony and hyprocisy?
He’s right. The Catholic view of sex is basically the best and most enlightened view of the matter. It also represents the most logical and helpful view to adopt for couples.

@Jamie5 I don’t know why you bother posting on these forums if you only wish to express anti-catholic sentiment and sneer at authentic Catholic viewpoints?
 
So other viewpoints and opinions are not welcome here? I know many Catholics who feel exactly the same way I do. And it is very ironic that you call the Catholic view of sex basically the best and most enlightened.
 
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The non-Catholic posters on here don’t normally just put forward their views as fact. They also are generally able to post in such a way that they respectfully engage on some level with certain teachings. All your posts are simply stating things that are completely the opposite of what the Church teaches.

In order to be fully “Catholic” you actually have to accept what the Church teaches.

I don’t see what’s ironic about believing that the Catholic view of sexuality and sex is the most enlightened. It is. It makes the most sense and leads to the most happiness.
 
I agree that the Catholic view of sexual morality is the most sane, most in accord with nature, and most conducive to family stability, personal happiness and social order. So to the extent that one could be a sexologist whose practice incorporates Catholic principles, it would be for the good. A practice which encouraged amoral or immoral sexual practices would be detrimental to its clients.
 
I am aware of what the word “irony” means. I just don’t see why you think it’s ironic that Catholics would believe that the Catholic view of sex.

They are evil because the distort the divine plan for marriage. We are not designed to go about having sex with everyone we meet…treating it like a plaything. The fullest and most beautiful expression of human love is sex between a married man and woman.
Free-love is simply a euphimism for “sex whenever I want with who I want”. And contraception is a rejection of the gift of the reproductive faculties.

I wouldn’t mind you disagreeing if you actually stated a coherent argument in favour of your viewpoint.
 
“CCC 2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex…Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.” They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.“

“CCC 2390: “every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible" is intrinsically evil.”
 
Simply put, not everyone believes in the Catholic view of sex. I do realize what forum we are on and I am just interjecting my opinion. I see nothing productive out of calling birth control, homosexuality or sex for pleasure as “evil” since there are billions of people including myself who disagree with that assessment. I absolutely respect people’s ability to believe anything they want, but when they are actively campaigning to deny equal rights to certain people (Australia) I then take issue with that.
 
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The fullest and most beautiful expression of human love is sex between a married man and woman.
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Indeed. I would add that sex between husband and wife is Holy. It is Holy because it reveal the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity; it is a participation in the creative power of God; and it is a complete gift of self to the other. The family is the Holy Trinity on Earth.

Sexual intimacy is profoundly mystical. This is why we treat these relations with respect. The Lord gave us the sexual faculty to reveal something about himself. If you comprehend this, you’ll understand why anything less than spousal union is profane.
 
  1. Just because many people disagree with it doesn’t mean it’s not the best view.
  2. They are intrinsically evil. That doesn’t mean the people who use them are evil. But it is the job of Catholic’s to help people come to realise the truth of the faith. That sometimes takes time.
  3. There’s nothing wrong with sex for pleasure…as long as it’s with your spouse.
  4. Gay marriage isn’t equal rights. It’s a change in the definition or marriage, and by extension, family. The only unit that can ensure the continuation of society is the traditional family. There are good reasons people want to protect it in law.
 
While I don’t think Jaime5 is going the best way of phrasing it I do get what he means.

Of course as Catholics you believe your view is the correct one, and you’re more than welcome to think that. However, if we’re getting into the area of psychology, psychiatry and the social sciences (which the OP is doing by contemplating a career in this field) we must surely consider the facts?

The fact in this case is that while Catholics believe and are fully entitled to think that their views are the most enlightened, science in the form of psychology and biology fundamentally disagrees and has many decades of evidence based research with which to disprove many claims made by Christian doctrines on sexuality.

I think OP needs to be aware of this if she wants to remain true to her faith, that by entering a scientific field she cannot expect to be able to apply theology with no evidence basis to an area with a great deal of evidence to contradict it on several fronts. It would be like trying to become an astronomer and insisting the Ptolmaic view on the cosmos or Geocentrism was correct.

You could certainly try to do it, but you’d find it a challenge to justify it in your assignments or find work afterwards if you did.
 
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