The Pastoral Problem of Masturbation

The Courage To Be Chaste, The Paulist Press, Mahwah, N.J., 64–65.

New Catholic Encyclopedia, “Masturbation”, vol. 9, 438–440 at 438.

91. The complete text is found in: Letter to a Mr. Masson (March 6, 1956) Wade Collection, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill.

A Guide to Formation in Priestly Celibacy, no. 63. pp. 53–54.

See Out of the Shadows, 1983, and Contrary To Love, 1989, Compcare Publ. 2415 Annapolis Lane, Minneapolis, MN, 55441.

Paragraph 9, taken from ‘lOsservatore Romano, Jan. 22, 1976.

Katchadourion Herant A. , and Lunde Donald T. , Fundamentals of Human Sexuality, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. New York, 1972, p. 473.

Kosnik Anthony ,, p. 219. The quoted opinion is that of Josef Fuchs, S.J.

Autoerotisma, Un problema morale nei primi secoli cristiana? Conclusioni, 255–267. Centro Editoriale Dehoniano Via Nosadella, 6, 40123 Bologna, 1986. I am grateful to Barnabite Father Gabriel Patil for translating pertinent parts of this book.

May William E. , Summary of Silverio Zedda, SJ, Relative e Assolute nella morale de San Paolo, Brescia: Paideia Editrice, 1984, 393 pp. The quotation is from p. 21 of May's summary.

May William E. , Summary of Silverio Zedda, SJ, Relative e Assolute nella morale de San Paolo, Brescia: Paideia Editrice, 1984, 438. See also Vatican Declaration on Sexual Ethics, paragraph 9: “The principal argument in support of this truth is that the deliberate use of the sexual faculty outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose. For it lacks that sexual relationship 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.”

May William E. , Summary of Silverio Zedda, SJ, Relative e Assolute nella morale de San Paolo, Brescia: Paideia Editrice, 1984, 438.

May William E. , Summary of Silverio Zedda, SJ, Relative e Assolute nella morale de San Paolo, Brescia: Paideia Editrice, 1984, 438.

May William E. , Summary of Silverio Zedda, SJ, Relative e Assolute nella morale de San Paolo, Brescia: Paideia Editrice, 1984, 438.

May William E. , Summary of Silverio Zedda, SJ, Relative e Assolute nella morale de San Paolo, Brescia: Paideia Editrice, 1984, 438 Farraher also holds that for a sufficient reason, such as restful sleep or study one is not bound to offer positive resistance “for any long time against such involuntary motions and temptations.” (440)

May William E. , Summary of Silverio Zedda, SJ, Relative e Assolute nella morale de San Paolo, Brescia: Paideia Editrice, 1984, 438.

“Masturbation and Objectively Grave Matter” in A New Look at Christian Morality, Notre Dame, Ind. Fides Press, 1968, p. 214. Fr. Curran first proposed this opinion at the Catholic Theological Society of America in 1966.

“Masturbation and Objectively Grave Matter” in A New Look at Christian Morality, Notre Dame, Ind. Fides Press, 1968, p. 220.

Declaration on Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics, paragraph 9.

Rev. Ronald Lawler, OFM, CAP, Jos. Boyle, Jr., and Wm. E. May, 187-195, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., Huntington, Indiana, 46750.

Declaration on Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics, par. 9.

Declaration on Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics, 190–191.

Section 12: “By safeguarding both these essential aspects, the unitive and the procreative, the conjugal act preserves in its fulness the sense of true mutual love and its ordination to man's most high calling to parenthood.”

See Book Eight, ch. 8-12, inclusive for the classical description of conflict of will and its resolution through divine grace. Frank Sheed's translation, Sheed and Ward, London, 1949, pp. 135–142.

1989 S.A. Literature, P.O. Box 300, Simi Valley, CA 93062.

1986 The Augustine Fellowship, P.O. Box 88, New Town Branch, Boston, MA, 02258.

This definition is that of John Bradshaw. See John Bradshaw, Healing The Shame That Binds You, Health Communications Inc., Deerfield, FL, 33442.

Out of the Shadows, Compcare Publications, 2415 Annapolis Lane, Minneapolis, MN 55441, 1984, 4. See also Schaef Anne Wilson , Escape From Intimacy, Harper and Row, 1989, 1–5.

Contrary to Love, 1989, Compcare Publ. 2415 Annapolis Lane, Minneapolis, MN 55441, 4-7.

“Irresistible Impulses: A Question of Moral Psychology”, American Ecclesiastical Review, 100, 1939, 219.

“Irresistible Impulses: A Question of Moral Psychology”, American Ecclesiastical Review, 100, 1939, 440.

Allers, “Irresistible Impulses: A Question of Moral Psychology”, American Ecclesiastical Review, 100, 1939, 216–217. See also Ford John , and Kelly Gerald , Contemporary Moral Theology, vol. I, Questions in Fundamental Moral Theology (Westminster, MD, Newman Press, 1958), 230.

See Walter and Trobisch Ingrid , My Beautiful Feeling, Correspondence with Illona, Intervarsity Press, 1977, Downers Grove, Illinois, 60515. A German teenage girl reveals her inner feelings about masturbation in opposition to the liberal college professor.

64-69, Paulist Press, Mahwah, N.J., 07430.

Harvey John F. , OSFS, “Expressing Marital Love during the Fertile Phase” International Review of Natural Family Planning, vol. 5, no. 4 (Winter, 1981) 204–210. I wrote an article on masturbation in marriage in the same review, vol. 3, 134-140.

John F. Kippley in his recent book Sex and the Marriage Covenant, The Couple to Couple League International, Inc. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1991, shows the link between contraception and masturbation. If one argues in favor of contraception on the basis of the total history of the marriage (one has at least four children already, and has fulfilled one's duty) then by the same argument one can justify masturbation in marriage. Both arguments fall flat. 292-293.

Harvey John F. , OSFS, “Homosexuality and Vocations” American Ecclesiastical review; vol. 164, no. 1, Jan., 1971, 42–55. While I deal primarily in this article with the question of homosexuality and vocations, I also deal with the role of the spiritual director on both the issue of homosexuality and masturbation.

The Sexual Celibate, New York, The Seabury Press, 1974, 201.

The Sexual Celibate, New York, The Seabury Press, 1974, 203–204.

Images of Hope, New York, 1966, 119–120.

See Payne Leanne , The Broken Image, Westchester, Ill., 1982. 46–47.

Martin Buber wrote of “the uncanny game of hide and seek in the obscurity of the soul, in which it, the single human soul evades itself, avoids itself, hides from itself.” Quoted by Peck M. Scott , The People of the Lie, Simon and Schuster, N.Y., 1983, 76.

“The Solitary Vice Goes Public”, Editorial, Fidelity, Notre Dame, IN, 1985, 5. Jones goes on to say: “The struggle with the temptation to masturbate is the smithy in which adolescents form their character. They either learn how to control themselves, with all that that entails, or they do not, with all of the self-loathing projected as hatred of authority which that entails. Masturbation is, in a sense, the root sexual evil first of all from a developmental point of view — it is the child's introduction to sexual sinning — but also because all other sexual sinning is at its root masturbatory.” Quoted by Peck M. Scott , The People of the Lie, Simon and Schuster, N.Y., 1983, 76.

Stekel Wilhelm , Autoeroticism, Grove Press, N.Y., 1950.

The Sexual Language, U. of Ottawa Press, 1976, 284.

Bausch William , pamphlet, “Masturbation” Claretian publ., 17.

Lewis C.S. , Mere Christianity, quoted in Bausch, “Masturbation”, 35.

Stekel Wilhelm , op. cit., 131–135. Stekel uses the term “cryptic” masturbation.

Kraft William F. , “A Psychospiritual View of Masturbation” Human Development, Summer, 1982, 39–45; Bernard J. Tyrrell,” The Sexual Celibate and Masturbation” Review for Religious, vol. 35, 1976/3, 399-408.

Kraft , op. cit., 40.

Kraft , op. cit., 41.

Kraft , op. cit., 41.

Kraft , op. cit., 43.

Kraft , op. cit., 43.

Tyrrell , op. cit., 405.

Tyrrell refers to his book, Christotherapy: Healing Through Enlightenment (New York, Seabury, 1975) for further understanding of his thesis that a masturbation-free existence is possible not only for religious, but also for members of the laity as well.