TLM08,
Furthermore, since we know that food and our drive to obtain it sustains life, How is eating huge piece of double chocolate fudge cake with chocolate chip ice cream right after dinner any different than pleasuring oneself sexually? This cake has nothing to do with the intended purpose of food which is to sustain life. Why isn’t “pleasure eating” like this considered evil? I am just not seeing much of a difference when logic is applied.
Pleasure eating to the point of gluttony is a grave sin, but one cannot compare overindulging in a dessert right after dinner to pleasuring oneself sexually. Why? Because when one masturbates they are entertaining lustful thoughts about other people who have human dignity and are made in God’s image. They are reducing the people to sexual objects. Also engaging in sexual thoughts of this kind can lead one to want more than just the lustful thoughts. It can often lead to viewing pornography and then some even are tempted into fornication or adultery. This is one of the reasons the Churches teaches that this is a very grave sin. It is also a selfish act and can destroy marriages.
TLM08, I just wanted to share this beautiful entry about sexual love from the catechism.
III. THE LOVE OF HUSBAND AND WIFE
Code:
2360 Sexuality is ordered to the conjugal love of man and woman. In marriage the physical intimacy of the spouses becomes a sign and pledge of spiritual communion. Marriage bonds between baptized persons are sanctified by the sacrament. [1601]
2361 "Sexuality, by means of which man and woman give themselves to one another through the acts which are proper and exclusive to spouses, is not something simply biological, but concerns the innermost being of the human person as such. It is realized in a truly human way only if it is an integral part of the love by which a man and woman commit themselves totally to one another until death." [FC 11] [1643, 2332]
Tobias got out of bed and said to Sarah, "Sister, get up, and let us pray and implore our Lord that he grant us mercy and safety." So she got up, and they began to pray and implore that they might be kept safe. Tobias began by saying, "Blessed are you, O God of our fathers.... You made Adam, and for him you made his wife Eve as a helper and support. From the two of them the race of mankind has sprung. You said, 'It is not good that the man should be alone; let us make a helper for him like himself.' I now am taking this kinswoman of mine, not because of lust, but with sincerity. Grant that she and I may find mercy and that we may grow old together." And they both said, "Amen, Amen." Then they went to sleep for the night. [Tob 8:4-9] [1611]
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Originally Posted by ladybri77 View Post
I guess if that helps you for the time being, but how will you ever meet your future wife if you don’t see her completely as herself, outside as well as inside? Unless, of course, you are friends and become more, but will you even look at her? If you’re eyes aren’t open to her, how will you see her if you are so afraid of sinning? (symbolically speaking)
You need not worry about this in the slightest, this will not get in the way of Godly love.
In fact, a person who does these things will see her more clearly than any man, because he will see her with eyes that see through to the soul.
Shin, This is beautiful!!! Amen.
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