I looked for oral sex and Catholicism. I didn't find very much. But since sex isn't intended for pleasure - see quote below- I would think that having oral sex for lustful reasons, and keeping that precious little egg away from the sperm is just wrong. Well I wouldn't think that- but I think the Church might think that. I'm all for oral sex, or any other kind of sex- as long as it's consensual, and between adults.
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They have since retracted that position but they have not
retracted the book. The book is still out there, being bought and
read by thousands and thousands of people. They also, it's sad to
say, suggest that masturbation is not wrong because nowhere is it
condemned in scripture. Charlie Shed, Reverend Charlie Shed, who
wrote "The Stork is Dead," and many other very popular best-sellers
evangelical sex books, now is on record on the Phil Donohue Show,
recommending vibrators and allowing anal sex. Ed Wheat writes a book
for married couples entitled, Intended for Pleasure, in which he says
oral sex to climax is licit.
Our separated brothers and sisters need the guidance and the
holiness of the Holy Family more than ever before, to help them
through turbulent and confusing times. The Wheat book, the book by Ed
Wheat, Intended for Pleasure, I think raises the difficult question.
There's a problem, I think, reflected in the very title, Intended for
Pleasure. Sex is not intended for pleasure any more than food is
intended for flavor. Just as food is intended for nourishment, so
natural law and Holy Mother the Church teaches that sex is primarily
designed for procreation.
This does not imply whole opposition or condemnation of sexual
pleasure any more than it condemns good flavored food for tasting so
good. It simply reminds us that just as the sin of gluttony is
committed when a desirable side effect, namely good taste, replaces
nutrition as the reason for eating, so the sin of sensuality or lust
results when the need or the desire for sexual pleasure leads to the
direct suppression of fertility.
Sex is not intended for pleasure. It is intended for life-giving
love and it gives pleasure as a desirable and foreseeable side
effect. But if you begin to desire the side effect more than the
primary end, something is radically wrong. Look around. Something is
radically wrong. Among our separated brethren but among our own
family members; within our own marriages, within this parish and in
every other parish across the country and around the world. We need
help. We need God's grace and nothing less than the death of Christ
can give us the grace we need to live a life that is otherwise
humanly impossible. |
