Why are your responses so angry? I am not trying to prove that you can sin when you sleep. I am simply saying I don’t understand why God would allow such things as a wet dreams to exist since they border so closely on eroticism. The mind uses erotic thoughts to cause the emission.
Why do you read “anger” into my posts? Can you detect tone in the written word?porthos11:
Why are your responses so angry? I am not trying to prove that you can sin when you sleep. I am simply saying I don’t understand why God would allow such things as a wet dreams to exist since they border so closely on eroticism. The mind uses erotic thoughts to cause the emission.
I think part of the confusion comes here from forgetting about our fallen nature.
@porthos11 answered this better than I could have. I would just say that if you are in some kind of lucid “twilight” state, half-awake, half-asleep, and you start having promptings, you would do well to get up, move around, do something to break your train of thought and calm yourself down, and then go back to bed. It’s very easy to deceive oneself into thinking you have less willful consent than you actually do. Any male who has ever struggled to remain chaste will understand precisely what I’m talking about. Just be calm and take gentle command of the situation.HomeschoolDad:
And that causes me to ask the question why? According to Catholic Church teaching, it would seem that sexual pleasure is really only supposed to take place between husband and wife. This is one of the reasons masturbation is sinful, because the person provides themself with sexual pleasure. It’s a selfish act with zero chance of procreation.
Of course the sexual pleasure occuring during a wet dream cannot be helped. I do wonder though, why it even occurs? If it’s God’s design that the body needs to get rid of excess sperm from time to time, why does it normally occur in such a way that you have an erotic dream? Isn’t this lustful, even if not through your own choice? Why would God design it in such a way if sexual thoughts are generally lustful unless in the confines of a marriage?
No, you’re not. Not any more than a woman “wastes eggs” through the natural operation of her body in its monthly cycle.
No, it doesn’t. Sperm is not a human being. It’s not “wasted”; it performs the function that it was designed to perform.
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You seem very angry here, not wanting to engage with my posts anymore. It’s almost as if my posts have annoyed you a lot (and caused you to be angry).
Male and female reproductive cells (gametes) are regularly lost. In the male 120 day spermatogenesis process only 1/2 to 1/3 of spermatozoa become viable. The quality and motility of sperm declines with age, but then so also does production since testosterone levels fall.
Someday hopefully you’ll be able to ask him and understand the answer. For now why not just be glad he did?