A summary
First of all , you need to understand that for catholicism there are some theological approaches and some philosophies that have to be avoided by the couple about sex and intimacy in the Marriage.
These are: Pharisaism, Legalism, Externalism, Moralism, Scrupulism, Dolorism; Pessimism, Encratism, Manicheism, Catharism, Jansenism, Rigorism, Puritanism, Neo-puritanism, Prudism, Prudishness, Victorianism, Neo-victorianism; Sexism, Masculinism, Misogynism, Machism, Radical Feminism, Misandrism, Absolute Physiologism, Gender Theory; Absolute Procreationsim, Theoretical Providentialism, Primary Anti-personalism;
Secondly, according to canon 1096 § 1" For matrimonial consent to exist, the contracting parties must be at least not ignorant that marriage is a permanent partnership between a man and a woman ordered to the procreation of offspring by means of some sexual cooperation."
Morally speaking and per se (objectively), wife has to be okay with manual stimulations and oral stimulations on her entire body (in the respect of natural law) made by her husband as a foreplay to marital act in the context of conjugal act.
Morally speaking and per se (objectively), husband has to be okay with manual stimulations and oral stimulations on his entire body (in the respect of natural law) made by his wife as a foreplay to marital act in the context of conjugal act.
"If you do not change the end of the act (which limits a little thing compared to what is done by non-Catholic), and if you respect the person, the rest is okay.
Thirdly During continence periods, we are spouses, thus we are not brother and sister: intimacy without sex is possible, you need to find your creative abstinence.
Per se, it is not a sin to practice conjugal act in function of:
- Physiologic circumstances of wife
During wife’s periods (menstruation):
During pregnancy:
Days before the child birth:
The day of child birth (of course before the waters loss, labor and the delivery):
Sometimes the conjugal act can bring on labor., but per se if there are no medical problems, conjugal making love is not a sin even just before the end of pregnancy. If each members of couple are okay no problem if no medical issue.
During breastfeeding:
During menopause:
After menopause:
- Time of conjugal making love (when):
The Day:
The Night:
The Morning:
The Afternoon:
The Evening:
The Week:
The Week-end:
Holy Days:
Advent:
Christmas:
On Sunday:
Before Sunday Mass:
Before Sunday Mass and before Holy Communion:
After Sunday Mass:
After Sunday Mass and after Holy Communion:
Ash Wednesday:
Lent:
Holy Week:
Easter:
- Place of marital act (where):
Conjugal bed at home:
Conjugal bedroom at home:
Conjugal house: at home everywhere if the intimacy is respected: no children, no people in the house, of course, and no offense possible:
Bedroom hostel:
Bedroom motel :
A bedroom of friends for couple during vacations, during week-end:
A bedroom of your parents in law (for instance in your wife’s bedroom before your wedding):
A Bedroom of your parents (for instance in your own bedroom before your wedding):
- The initiative of one spouse: Equality and Equity between wife and husband
Active wife: ok
Passive wife: ok
Active husband: ok
Passive husband: ok
- The age of each one Spouse:
Young (18 until 60 years):
Old (60 until the death):