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Is it not strange that there are so many threads on this site regarding sexual issues? It isn’t just this site either, there are many other sites that look similar.

It is clear to me that the number one issue on peoples mind today is sex.

When you stop to consider all the other important issues it just does seem right that most people are focused on sexual issues.
 
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kev7:
Is it not strange that there are so many threads on this site regarding sexual issues? It isn’t just this site either, there are many other sites that look similar.

It is clear to me that the number one issue on peoples mind today is sex.

When you stop to consider all the other important issues it just does seem right that most people are focused on sexual issues.
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And here you have started another one!
 
People are composed of the following factors:

physical
mental
social
sexual
emotional
spiritual

They closely associate the “sexual” component with their self identity.

The first thing we do when a baby is born is declare, “it’s a boy” or “it’s a girl.” It’s the first thing we notice about a baby, and normally take it into consideration when choosing the baby’s name. When my first one was born, the baby would be Matthew or Elizabeth, depending on whether the baby wound up to be an inny or an outy.

Alan
 
Every now and then we get the charge that the Church is hung up about sex. Not true. It is the surrounding culture that went hog-wild for the sexual revolution. And in all that time the Church has been approached by these guys demanding permission to indulge in whatever deviant behavior they can cook up. The Church of course simply repeats constant teaching, yet it is the Church that gets accused of being preoccupied with sex.

So the typical Catholic has to endure a load of questions regarding the subject and it is perfectly reasonable to expect them to come to the forums asking for help on how to defend Church teaching.

Scott
 
Sexual issues started right with Adam and Eve. God made them male and female and in His own image. Thus, the image of God is the merging of the male and the female.
And God proclaimed it goo.

THEN SIN enters.
Now the Church is trying with kindness and ‘tough love’ to tell The truth about what sex and sexual realtions are ALL about.

Yet on the flipside, the Culture of the World alligned with Satan and Sin is preventing and silencing the Church’s (God’s) teaching on sex.

It’s NOT a simple topic to sum up in a few words, but I hope this adds to the presentation of the discussion.

As long as there are human beings, the topic of sex will be brought up.
 
I would also suggest a situation where both types of people are wrong, although it isn’t rerasily apparent. That is:

You have a gay person who is quite and unassuming. doesn’t go screaming at parades, does tell people they just know or assume. Well this person does charity work and helps out, is a good coworker and good friend. There wrong is a lot like a person who learns to drink, or shop lift, or gossip. Something influenced them. It is something they must overcome.

Then there is the “good Christian” who is quick to tell others about who is going to hell. They are quick to fixate on sexual issues in the church. Yet they say nothing of corrupt property owners and let landlords and insurance companies cheat and hurt the poor. They let militaristic leaders blunder in places like Vietnam ( I will keep the present proble out of this point it is too new ) so thousands if not millions die for nothing.

In effect you have so many with no regard ro justice judging damaged individuals of questionable capacity. Therefore, it is one more exibit in their failure to be just. For taking the homosexaul at face valueI in that they the homosexual chooses this lifestyle, may well buy into something medicine comes to show is a problem brought up by uprbinging and physiology.

Others caught up in other problems such as casual relationships certainly have issues of insecurity and self image.Thereby requring counseling. If we go down the road of the “medical approach is not biblical” we will end up sounding like Tom Cruise and his psuedo “group” There are Catholic psychiatrists and psychologists.

I have suggested to Karl Keating that somoon found an adult password forum to channel delicate issues towards. In that sense there do seems to be a lot of sexual issues in a manner that
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sadowa
 
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kev7:
Is it not strange that there are so many threads on this site regarding sexual issues? It isn’t just this site either, there are many other sites that look similar.

It is clear to me that the number one issue on peoples mind today is sex.

When you stop to consider all the other important issues it just does seem right that most people are focused on sexual issues.
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All of creation is shouting procreation! Take a look around. Every tree, plant, insect, animal and person…every living thing is involved in procreation of some kind or another. Really think hard and see.
 
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kev7:
Is it not strange that there are so many threads on this site regarding sexual issues? It isn’t just this site either, there are many other sites that look similar.

It is clear to me that the number one issue on peoples mind today is sex.

When you stop to consider all the other important issues it just does seem right that most people are focused on sexual issues.
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Catholic sexual morality directly/indirectly deals with the pervasive, in your face societal issues of: contraception, homosexuality/SSA, gay marriage, contraception, abortion, fertility, embryonic stem cell research. Not too many other important issues left where the Church and secular society interface/clash. This tells me where the devil has focused his attack efforts to erode the influense of Christian values fabric of secualr society.
 
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kev7:
Is it not strange that there are so many threads on this site regarding sexual issues? It isn’t just this site either, there are many other sites that look similar.

It is clear to me that the number one issue on peoples mind today is sex.

When you stop to consider all the other important issues it just does seem right that most people are focused on sexual issues.
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The primary problems in society today have their source in sexual immorality:

abortion
gay marriage
many diseases
psychological problems stemming from sexual immorality
pornography
indecency on the television, radio and internet
contraception

and so on and so forth.

and since, according to St. Thomas Aquinas, the moral virtues are prudence, justice, temperance and fortitude, feel free to start a thread about any of those topics. It just so happens that sexual morality is the part of “Moral Theology” that’s on everybody’s mind, well, because it is our human nature.
 
Much of our religion alludes to sex. Like the Easter candle “impregnating” the baptismal water. When a man and a woman marry, come together to make one flesh. (A child.) That’s all I can think of for now, can someone add to this?
 
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StratusRose:
Much of our religion alludes to sex. Like the Easter candle “impregnating” the baptismal water. When a man and a woman marry, come together to make one flesh. (A child.) That’s all I can think of for now, can someone add to this?
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Not specifically at the moment but much of our Church hinges on some sense of sexuality related to relationship between male and female and procreation. Sexuality should be very important to Catholics.
 
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contemplative:
Not specifically at the moment but much of our Church hinges on some sense of sexuality related to relationship between male and female and procreation. Sexuality should be very important to Catholics.
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I just thought of something else…the Church being Christ’s “bride” it doesnt directly relate to sex, but pretty dang close.
 
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kev7:
Is it not strange that there are so many threads on this site regarding sexual issues? It isn’t just this site either, there are many other sites that look similar.

It is clear to me that the number one issue on peoples mind today is sex.

When you stop to consider all the other important issues it just does seem right that most people are focused on sexual issues.
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I could be wrong, but to me it seems what kev7 is saying here is more why are we so obsessed with ourselves, and our own pleasures rathar than thinking about others.

I also think this way. Some people get so upset about different issues concerning themselves. Instead of being self centered, we should be more God or world centered. It seems a lot of time wasted, that could be used for many more important issues. To sit and worry about these little things, takes us away from centering ourselves on God and his plan for us.
 
our culture is awash in sex - natural or perverse. it hasan effect on us all in one way or another. discussing the issues helps correct our thinking and aling our desires in a healthier direction.
 
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elliot:
I could be wrong, but to me it seems what kev7 is saying here is more why are we so obsessed with ourselves, and our own pleasures rathar than thinking about others.

I also think this way. Some people get so upset about different issues concerning themselves. Instead of being self centered, we should be more God or world centered. It seems a lot of time wasted, that could be used for many more important issues. To sit and worry about these little things, takes us away from centering ourselves on God and his plan for us.
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Welcome! to the CA forums elliott. I have two questions that I would appreciate your response to: 1) Which of these “issues” of Catholic sexual morality (see below) do you consider “these little things” that we should not spend (“wasted”) time in serious discussion/discernment in our personal moral choices? 2) What are these “more important issues” that Catholics should be devoting a greater proportion of their time to?
  • abortion
  • gay marriage
  • many diseases
  • psychological problems stemming from sexual immorality
  • pornography
  • indecency on the television, radio and internet
  • contraception/NFP
  • in vitro fertilization/fertility
  • chastity
 
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kev7:
Is it not strange that there are so many threads on this site regarding sexual issues? It isn’t just this site either, there are many other sites that look similar.

It is clear to me that the number one issue on peoples mind today is sex.

When you stop to consider all the other important issues it just does seem right that most people are focused on sexual issues.
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I agree with you.
 
Felra-

I quoted kev7 directly because in his quote he referred to sex. So therefor it would be logical to assume that I was also referring to sex. I quoted him directly as to not confuse what I was trying to say.

It is obvious that the issues you listed are very important, and need to be discussed and dealt with. However, if we were like I stated before more God centered instead of self centered I honestly think these wouldn’t be the problem they are today.

When I was referring to these little things, I was thinking and trying to refer to what I believed kev7 was- sexual issues, between spouses, can I use birth control or not, etc. Because I also don’t think kev7 was suggesting the things you listed shouldn’t be discussed on a forum either.

The more important issues I was referring to, would be topics such as how can we help the people who are starving in third world countries, what can we do to spread the Truth of our faith, how can we start to make our children see the importance of religious vocations, so we can somehow save our Church. etc.

I apologize for getting off to a bad start. Hopefully things will get better from here. :o
 
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elliot:
Felra-

I quoted kev7 directly because in his quote he referred to sex. So therefor it would be logical to assume that I was also referring to sex. I quoted him directly as to not confuse what I was trying to say.

It is obvious that the issues you listed are very important, and need to be discussed and dealt with. However, if we were like I stated before more God centered instead of self centered I honestly think these wouldn’t be the problem they are today.

When I was referring to these little things, I was thinking and trying to refer to what I believed kev7 was- sexual issues, between spouses, can I use birth control or not, etc. Because I also don’t think kev7 was suggesting the things you listed shouldn’t be discussed on a forum either.

The more important issues I was referring to, would be topics such as how can we help the people who are starving in third world countries, what can we do to spread the Truth of our faith, how can we start to make our children see the importance of religious vocations, so we can somehow save our Church. etc.

I apologize for getting off to a bad start. Hopefully things will get better from here. :o
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I appreciate your clarification. I would agree that those “more important issues” you identify are very much at the heart of the Church.

However, if you look at my list and compare this to “sexual issues” as our original poster stated, they all have one common thread, origin, that is the seperation of the unitive from the procreative aspect of our human sexuality. To put it another way, putting the creature before the Creator in our personal and collective/societal choices related to human sexuality. So, yes, I agree whole heartidly, conversion must occur first and foremost, and too much emphasis in satisfying one’s own desires and wants is a symptom of needed conversion.
 
Our culture is telling us one thing, and our human nature tells another… as a good Catholic (or christian) wouldn’t you want to know what appropriate action to take or how to properly think things through? That’s why there’s so many threads on this issue. It’s confusing and people need to know and/or clearification on what’s right!
 
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crusader4life:
Our culture is telling us one thing, and our human nature tells another… as a good Catholic (or christian) wouldn’t you want to know what appropriate action to take or how to properly think things through? That’s why there’s so many threads on this issue. It’s confusing and people need to know and/or clearification on what’s right!
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That sums it up very neatly, IMO, as to why we have all these threads.
 
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