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...Catholic Sexual Teaching.” Cahill argued that many Catholic students tend to embrace a lifestyle of promiscuity because they feel alienated by traditional Catholic views on sexuality. This happens, she asserted, because although the Church’s viewpoint has progressed beyond the myopic notion that sex is for “procreation only,” that is exactly how many Catholic students unfortunately understand it, leading many to deem abstinence as “unrealistic.” Cahill went on to delineate the Church’s current views, but the absence...
...primary source for modern Catholic sexual ethics, Cahill cited the “Humanae Vitae,” an encyclical written by Pope Paul VI in 1968. Before this, argued Cahill, the Catholic perspective was indeed primarily that sex is solely for procreation. This encyclical, however, written on the issue of artificial birth control, modified this view. While Pope Paul affirmed that “every marital act must of necessity retain its intrinsic relationship to the procreation of human life,” he also asserted the equally important function of sex as a tool to entrench...
...Catholicism because the past generation focused on the Humanae Vitae’s stance against birth control more than its reworking of Catholic sexual philosophy. From her own experience, Cahill asserted, many Catholic students seem to care more about the apparent obsolescence of laws than forbid pre-marital sex than they do about issues like birth control. To promote abstinence today, therefore, Cahill argued, Catholic pedagogues ought to associate sex not merely with procreation but also with “commitment” and “integrity...
Failing to legitimize the enjoyment one normally gets from sex (or, in the case of Paul and Augustine among numerous others, equating it to sin) has tremendous potential to alienate students of the faith. Although the Catechism cites a statement from Pope Pius XII that “spouses should experience pleasure and enjoyment of body and spirit” through intercourse, the role of sexual pleasure in marriage has been hotly contested throughout the history of Catholic thought. The solution could therefore be less to emphasize the gravity of the sexual act than to ensure that students understand that...
...argues in his essay “A Jewish Sexual Ethics,” while many Christian denominations advocate a repression of sensual desire, Judaism humanizes sexuality by framing its pleasure as a mitzvah if it is experienced in the proper context. Although procreation is paramount and pre-marital sex is strictly forbidden in Orthodox Judaism, physical gratification itself is viewed as anything but corrosive. On the contrary, the Talmud records that it was common practice for Torah scholars to have sex their wives on the eve of the Sabbath since, as one prominent commentator notes, the Sabbath is meant...