Interior Integration for Catholics
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And yet here we are in 2020 and talking about masturbation is still taboo in most of society. And that’s a shame, literally and figuratively, because masturbation is still widely considered shameful, and because for most people it’s a healthy and normal activity. There is actually a term these days for those who prefer masturbation over other forms of sex: solosexual.
2351 Lust is disordered desire for or inordinate enjoyment of sexual pleasure. Sexual pleasure is morally disordered when sought for itself, isolated from its procreative and unitive purposes.
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.""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 the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved."139
138 Personal Formation with Jake Khym: Restore the Glory and Life Restoration
137 Live Q&A with Fr. Boniface Hicks on Spiritual Direction and Personal Formation
136 Spiritual Direction and Personal Formation with Fr. Boniface Hicks
135 The Tree of Catholic Personal Formation: An Integrative Model
134 Looking at Integrated Personal Formation Through a Mathematical Lens
133 Models of Integrated Personal Formation -- Catholic Style, with Matthew Walz, Ph.D.
132 Live Q&A with Dr. Gerry on his Book, "Litanies of the Heart"
131 On God's Role in your Human Formation
130 Grounding IFS in Catholicism-- Litanies of the Heart by Dr. Gerry Crete
129 Relating Well with "Borderline" Family Members with Dr. Gerry Crete
128 Recovering from "Borderline Personality" with IFS
127 Understanding "borderline personalities" through Internal Family Systems
126 Borderline "personalities": Your questions answered by Dr. Greg Bottaro
125 "Borderline personality" according to the conventional secular experts
124 Your parts, IFS, and war: An experiential exercise
123 Relating well with narcissistic family members with Dr. Gerry Crete
122 Narcissism and Gaslighting: What Catholics Should Know
121 Connecting with your own narcissistic parts: experiential exercise
120 Understanding Narcissism More Deeply with IFS
119 Narcissism: Q & A with Dr. Peter Martin
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