This sex-act morality flow chart was recently shared with me. By a bishop. In these turbulent times it is helpful imperative that ethical teaching, especially in the area of sexual activity, be unambiguously presented.
This sex-act morality flow chart was recently shared with me. By a bishop. In these turbulent times it is helpful imperative that ethical teaching, especially in the area of sexual activity, be unambiguously presented.
Interesting but I have one issue with it..
Box “Are you doing it solely for procreative purposes?” We are past the baby bearing years, so since I must answer “no” to this question, should my husband & I in our mid-fifties stop having sex? I think not.
Looks like a box is missing!
Thanks, Christine. Fascinating that that is the only issue you have with the flow chart. I see you declare yourself a deacon’s wife here. Many would say you should not have been having sex at all! Blessings.
I’d be very careful about this Fr Bosco very careful indeed.
This is designed to mock healthy, life giving fruitful relationships and promote self indulgent, self worshiping, hedonistic ones.
When I took “Protestant Reformation” as an undergraduate, we were given a flow chart very similar to this one (but much more complicated) showing the rules as given in medieval penitentials (i.e. handbooks for priests hearing annual pre-Easter confessions). Among the questions were, “Is it Wednesday? STOP! SIN!” “Is it Friday? STOP! SIN!” “Are you naked? STOP! SIN!” If you made it through all 200 questions, the last box said, “All right, go ahead. Just try not to enjoy yourself.”
My own doctoral research (legitimate, honest!) led me to a seventh-century penitential that instructs the priest to ask married women, “Have you taken your husband’s semen, baked a cake with it, and eaten it?” (A pagan fertility practice, I think…) Not exactly edifying reading material for the clergy — especially celibate clergy!
Where have you been Andrei? I am surprised that you just show up now and have refrained from making any commentary about all of Peter’s shit on this blog! 😉
I love it – especially the political overtones. It is good to be reminded via humour how we have warped cultural imperatives into ageless divine edicts.
The chart itself seems to be pretty culture imperative — who the heck in this dyay and age knows what “leave it to beaver” is?
I’m putting my hand up, Steve. I don’t. Blessings.
Leave it to Beaver, of course, took on new meaning at the Rugby World Cup final. Not the double entendre intended in the flow chart, but full of significant religious implications for kiwis…