PART THREE: Life In Christ. Article 6. The Sixth Commandment:
II The Vocation to Chastity (cont.)

OFFENSES AGAINST CHASTITY

Panderers and Seducers
Boticelli, Dante, Inferno 18.

OFFENSES AGAINST CHASTITY

Contra castitatem offensae

[1] disordered desire for or

[2] inordinate enjoyment of

inordinata cupiditas vel

intemperans delectatio

Sexual pleasure is morally disordered when sought for itself, isolated from its procreative and unitive purposes.

Voluptas sexualis moraliter est inordinata, cum per se ipsam quaeritur, a procreationis et unionis dissociata finibus.

2352 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” (CDF, Persona humana 9). “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 is achieved

2352 Masturbationis nomine intelligere oportet voluntariam organorum genitalium excitationem, ad obtinendam ex ea veneream voluptatem. « Revera tum Ecclesiae Magisterium — per decursum constantis traditionis — tum moralis christifidelium sensus sine dubitatione firmiter tenent masturbationem esse actum intrinsece graviterque inordinatum ». « Quaecumque est ipsa agendi causa, deliberatus usus facultatis sexualis extra rectum coniugale commercium essentialiter eius fini contradicit ». Delectatio sexualis tunc quaeritur extra relationem sexualem, « quae ordine morali postulatur, quae nempe ad effectum deducit

[1] mutual self-giving and

[2] human procreation

[3] in the context of true love (CDF, Persona humana 9).”

mutuae donationis

ac humanae procreationis

in contextu veri amoris ». ²³⁶

To form an equitable judgment about the subjects’ moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account[:]

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

Ad aequum iudicium de responsabilitate morali subiectorum efformandum et ad pastoralem actionem recte ducendam,

perpendentur immaturitas affectiva,

vis habituum contractorum,

angustiae status vel

alia elementa psychica

vel socialia,

quae possunt moralem minuere, fortasse etiam ad minimum reducere, culpabilitatem.

2353 Fornication is carnal union between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman. It is gravely contrary to the dignity of persons and of human sexuality which is naturally ordered to:
   [1] the good of spouses and
   [2] the generation and education of children.
Moreover, it is a grave scandal when there is corruption of the young. [see 2389]

2353 Fornicatio unio est carnalis extra matrimonium inter virum et mulierem liberos. Ea est personarum dignitati graviter contraria atque sexualitati humanae ad bonum coniugum et ad filiorum generationem et educationem naturaliter ordinatae. Est praeterea grave scandalum, cum iuvenum habetur corruptio.

2354 Pornography consists in removing real or simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partners, in order to display them deliberately to third parties. It offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses to each other. It does grave injury to the dignity of its participants (actors, vendors, the public), since each one becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit for others. It immerses all who are involved in the illusion of a fantasy world. It is a grave offense. Civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic materials.

2354 Pornographia consistit in actibus sexualibus, realibus vel simulatis, ab agentium intimitate substrahendis, ad eosdem deliberate aliis personis exhibendos. Castitatem offendit quia actum coniugalem, intimum coniugum mutuum donum, pervertit. Graviter dignitatem attentat eorum qui se ei tradunt (actores, negotiatores, spectatores), siquidem alius pro alio obiectum efficitur vulgaris voluptatis et illiciti lucri. Alios et alios in illusionem submergit mundi fictitii. Culpa gravis est. Auctoritates civiles debent productionem et distributionem prohibere rerum pornographicarum.

2355 Prostitution does injury to the dignity of the person who engages in it, reducing the person to an instrument of sexual pleasure. The one who pays sins gravely against himself: he violates the chastity to which his Baptism pledged him and defiles his body, the temple of the Holy Spirit (Cf. 1 Cor 6:15-20). Prostitution is a social scourge. It usually involves women, but also men, children, and adolescents (The latter two cases involve the added sin of scandal.). While it is always gravely sinful to engage in prostitution, the imputability of the offense can be attenuated by destitution, blackmail, or social pressure.

2355 Prostitutio attentat personae, quae prostituitur, dignitatem, redactam ad voluptatem veneream, quae ab illa obtinetur. Qui pecunia retribuit, graviter contra se ipsum peccat: castitatem frangit, ad quam eius Baptismus obligat, et corpus inquinat suum, Spiritus Sancti templum. ²³⁷ Prostitutio sociale constituit flagellum. Generatim mulieres afficit, sed etiam viros, pueros vel adulescentes (in his duobus ultimis casibus, peccatum scandalo duplicatur). Etsi semper graviter peccato obnoxium sit se tradere prostitutioni, miseria, minaciae et socialis sollicitatio imputabilitatem culpae attenuare possunt.

2356 Rape is the forcible violation of the sexual intimacy of another person. It does injury to justice and charity. Rape deeply wounds the respect, freedom, and physical and moral integrity to which every person has a right. It causes grave damage that can mark the victim for life. It is always an intrinsically evil act. Graver still is the rape of children committed by parents (incest) or those responsible for the education of the children entrusted to them.

2356 Stuprum ingressum indicat per vim, cum violentia, in sexualem alicuius personae intimitatem. Iustitiam attentat et caritatem. Stuprum profunde uniuscuiusque violat ius ad observantiam, ad libertatem, ad physicam et moralem integritatem. Damnum causat grave, quod victimam per totam eius vitam potest signare. Actus est semper intrinsece malus. Adhuc gravius est stuprum a propinquis commissum (cf incestus) vel ab educatoribus erga pueros ipsis concreditos.