Infertility is not an impediment to marriage, and married couples are permitted to have sex regardless of how long they’ve been married.
Yes, married couples of any age may have sexual relations, often referred to as the marital act.
I have thought the same thing. You have a very good question, and I hope someone will attempt to answers it clearly, and realistically.
But wouldn’t most seniors be barred from having relations due to being unable to properly complete the act? Then, that would me that seniors would have to abstain all together.
The act of sexual intercourse between a man and a woman – assuming no deliberate action has been taken to render procreation impossible – is naturally ordered toward procreation.The fact that sometimes bodies don’t work as designed due to age or other factors, and the fact that the the female body goes through cycles of fertility, do not change the fact that male-female sexual intercourse is designed for procreative purpose.
Married sex between a husband and wife is still a natural married act, even though in the case of the naturally infertile (not willfully sterilized) or elderly will be a naturally infertile act. Sex in marriage is made for “babies AND bonding.” A natural sex act consists of the husbands seed always being planted in the wife’s vagina, regardless of the wife’s fertility status of each cycle. Seed must be planted in the vagina each and every sex act of the married couple, it can never be spilled elsewhere. Even using NFP the seed is still planted in the vagina, just during a naturally infertile time of the month for the wife. Oral sex to completion (involving spilling of seed outside vagina) is a unatural sex act and is not allowed between married couples of opposite genders either. [Note: oral stimulation is allowed between married couples, but the seed must always be planted in the vagina not outside it.]
You are correct that a senior couple in which one of the parties was incapable of performing the marital act would be unable to marry: catholic.com/blog/trent-horn/why-the-church-cannot-marry-the-impotent
From what I gathered (and correct me fellow Catholics if I’m wrong), as long as an honest attempt is made to place the seed in the vagina (it is not spilled elsewhere, and the husband isn’t “finished off” manually or orally instead) then it is allowed. Even if sperm are no longer produced, the intention was to place the seed inside the vagina. As far as being able to produce an erection, or last a greater length of time inside the wife’s vagina, the Church allows the use of medications (such as Viagra) for this purpose.
But medical technology is producing more and more aids for these individuals, and we can hope their cross is removed soon. I dont know where you got the idea that us Seniors couldn’t compete the act!!
Opposite sex couples are capable of marital sex; same sex couples are not capable of marital sex. There is no sexual complementarity. No marital relations are possible. Infertility is not an impediment to marriage. Permanent and antecedent impotence is.
I don’t think this is accurate to begin with.
As a female, who has female friends, after a certain age, it supposedly HURTS way too much to complete the act.
My previous post is about women. I also heard many men have difficulties.