My doctor told me Masturbation is healthy, normal and good

[underacloud]

This is an older thread, so perhaps you should start a new thread to address your concerns. I am sure you will receive plenty of responses.

Here are a couple, which I’ll be glad to copy and paste over if you start that new thread.

In other words, many, and given the outrageously high incidence rate of the behavior I dare say most, can no more willfully not masturbate then they can willfully not breath. By way of non-behavioral analogy, they may as well try to change their eye color by force of will.

For someone so interested in the science of it all, you’ve veered well off the road here.

Given the above, and realizing they are mere scratches on the surface of human behavioral impulses, would any of this have impacted the teaching’s content? Or does the philosophic perspective out of which they were formed trump biological findings unavailable at that time? In the end the real question is, if faith and science cannot contradict each other, how do the two reconcile into one harmonious truth?

The Church has always receognised this reality. If you read the writing of St Paul, he often discussed the conflict between the flesh and the spirit: “For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do–this I keep on doing” (Romans 7:15).

The Church describes this as concupiscence, or our fallen nature, or the effects of original sin, and it is a fundamental aspect of the salvation story.

 

[truetofaith]

Apparently your doctor is not Catholic. Tell him you need something else to keep you healthy…or better yet, find a different doctor.

 

[phil_at_dayboro]

This behaviour is consistent with Fadeing curtains and Blocked fuel line on your Bycicle

 

[Lost_Sheep]

But a few of us are trying to highlight on this thread that there are medicines that are frequently used as contraceptives that can serve other legitimate medical purposes. If a person is prescribed such medication for such a purpose, and NOT to avoid conception, then they are doing nothing wrong. Taking the medication is morally neutral. It’s the intention that matters.

What about a woman who is taking “the pill” for legitimate medical treatment reasons, yet chooses to take advantage of the “side effect” (e.g., the unlikelihood of conception) the legitimate medical treatment offers, and chooses to engage in sex more often?

 

[pensmama87]

What about a woman who is taking “the pill” for legitimate medical treatment reasons, yet chooses to take advantage of the “side effect” (e.g., the unlikelihood of conception) the legitimate medical treatment offers, and chooses to engage in sex more often?

More often as opposed to what? There’s no way to do NFP and be on the pill because there’s no useful data to chart.

The typical problems alleviated by the medication would probably make a woman more interested because at least in theory she’d be dealing with a lot less pain. Then again, it can also kill libido.

It would be a question to ask one’s confessor if someone were getting concerned that the contraception reason began to outweigh the medical reason, I think, but there’s no clearcut answer from the outside. If she can’t conceive, she can’t conceive, but as far as I know use of the Pill as hormone therapy does not require abstinence (nor would having a hysterectomy).

 

[SilverLight]

Masturbation is still a mortal sin whatever the doctor says.

I never lived by that at all. I was also never told that by my parents I know someone who was and they had fears later on in life that where not really rational.