Masturbation

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Madolaina said:
Please be more specific…either by passage or catecism …I am not knowlegable of these things and am looking for answers. I can’t posssibly be the only one here wanting to learn.
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Well, regarding Judah, Let’s look at Genesis 38:
Judah got a wife named Tamar for his first-born, Er. 7 But Er, Judah’s first-born, greatly offended the LORD; so the LORD took his life. 8 Then Judah said to Onan, “Unite with your brother’s widow, in fulfillment of your duty as brother-in-law, and thus preserve your brother’s line.” 9 Onan, however, knew that the descendants would not be counted as his; so whenever he had relations with his brother’s widow, he wasted his seed on the ground, to avoid contributing offspring for his brother. 10 What he did greatly offended the LORD, and the LORD took his life too. 11 Thereupon Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Stay as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up”–for he feared that Shelah also might die like his brothers. So Tamar went to live in her father’s house. 12 Years passed, and Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. After Judah completed the period of mourning, he went up to Timnah for the shearing of his sheep, in company with his friend Hirah the Adullamite. 13 When Tamar was told that her father-in-law was on his way up to Timnah to shear his sheep, 14 she took off her widow’s garb, veiled her face by covering herself with a shawl, and sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she was aware that, although Shelah was now grown up, she had not been given to him in marriage.
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The underlined parts tell the story (the rest is just details).

Some claim that Onan offended God because he didn’t allow the oldest son, Er, to have an heir. Well, Judah prevented this also, becuase he prevented his son, Shelah to marry Tamar and have a child for his brother Er’s line. So, according to this logic, Judah should have been slain by God.
 
Offenses against chastity

[2351](javascript:OpenPopupWindow() Lust is disordered desire for or inordinate enjoyment of sexual pleasure. Sexual pleasure is morally disordered when sought for itself, isolated from its procreative and unitive purposes.

[2352](javascript:OpenPopupWindow() 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."138 “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."139

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 can lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability.
 
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