Marital chastity

[josea]

I have learned that marital chastity means that every sexual related action must be ordered to the completion of the sexual act.

My question is simple: How can this be achieved? What is and what is not allowed between spouses? Does every action that produced arousal need to be always ended with the completion of the sexual act? How are the limits or the borders establish?

What are the magisterial documents explaining this issue?

Thanks

Jose

 

[BibleReader]

josea:

I have learned that marital chastity means that every sexual related action must be ordered to the completion of the sexual act.

My question is simple: How can this be achieved? What is and what is not allowed between spouses? Does every action that produced arousal need to be always ended with the completion of the sexual act? How are the limits or the borders establish?

What are the magisterial documents explaining this issue?

Thanks

Jose

I think that nature – God, in other words – anticipates a relationship between spouses where there is a kind of below-the-point-of-no-return sexual expectation and arousal, punctuated by climax-level sexual arousal.

In my opinion, the climax-level sexual arousal must always be an act of genital intercourse.

Climactic cunnilingus or climactic fellatio or climactic masturbation comprise perversions of the sex act, of the “natural shape” of sex, and therefore of God’s law.

How about climactic non-coital sex acts accompanying climactic coital sex?

In my opinion, the “natural shape” of sex is a “pre-wired” psychological shape, and all non-coital climactic sex comprises a kind of “attack” on that psychological shape.

So does Artificial Birth Control.

 

[felra]

josea:

I have learned that marital chastity means that every sexual related action must be ordered to the completion of the sexual act.

My question is simple: How can this be achieved? What is and what is not allowed between spouses? Does every action that produced arousal need to be always ended with the completion of the sexual act? How are the limits or the borders establish?

What are the magisterial documents explaining this issue?

Thanks

Jose

I have not yet found a Church document listing all the many varied scenarios and list of acceptable sexual behaviors between sacramentally married couples. The Church more offers moral dictates and guidelines that pastors and couples are expected to follow in the specifics of their sexual expression.

John Paul II wrote some insightful books that thoughtful couples can use to morally guide their sexual exchange in the covenant of marriage:

The Theology of the Body According to John Paul II: Human Love in the Divine Plan (Parish Resources) by John Paul, Pauline Books & Media

Love and Responsibility by Karol Wojtyla, H.T. Willetts

There are authors like Christopher West who address very specific questions regarding specific sexual expression that is morally licit between Catholic married couples:

Good News About Sex and Marriage: Answers to Your Honest Questions About Catholic Teaching by Christopher West