Scalco test - porn and gay stuff

Catechism on cohabitation

"Human love does not tolerate trial marriages, it demands a total and definitive gift of persons to one another" (CCC 2391)

Debated ARTs

Tubal Ovum Transfer: perforated condom used to collect sperm

Super normal stimulus

when organisms prefer an excessive stimulus to the normal stimulus

ARTs

Artificial reproductive technology

Sodomy

Homosexual sexual acts

Constructs

Homosexuality and heterosexuality are just ________, not real things

Homosexual big ideA

- homosexual and heterosexual do not really exist, they are constructs

Why homosexual constructs aren't helpful

1) they are dishonest about the fact that they are constructs 2) that have made doing moral theology and ethical philosophy harder- because we forget about the simple marital-procreative standard for sexuality 3) they have led to moral confusion- young people agonizing over "figuring out their sexual identity" 4) these constructs are at odds with the freedom for which Christ has set us free

Contra

Against

Morally acceptable ARTs

Any medicine, procedure, or method that increases a couples fertility naturally and makes it more likely to conceive through the marital act

Contraception

Deliberate intervention by use of mechanical, chemical, or medical procedures with he express intention of preventing the conception of new life, which might occur through sexual intercourse

Premarital sex

Fornication

Incest

Intimate relations between relatives or in-laws

Morally Wrong ARTs

Intrauterine insemination, in vitro fertilization, zygote intra-fallopian transfer (ZIFT), gamete intra-fallopian transfer (GIFT)

Cohabitation

Living together with someone you are sexually active with as a kind of trial marriage

Free union

Living together with someone you are sexually active with without the purpose of marriage

Sexual sins

Masturbation, pornography, premarital sex, oral and anal sex, contraception, sterilization, homosexual sex, artificial reproductive technologies

Direct sterilization

Permanent contraception, a surgical act done for the purpose of preventing someone from being able to produce children

Onanism

Pulling out

What determines what makes you a male or female with a transgender mentality

Self-perception

Natural family planning

The practice of achieving or avoiding pregnancy according to an informed awareness of a woman's fertility

Orientation essentialism

The way our culture thinks of homosexuality and heterosexuality we are one way or other or both

Immodesty in dress

Using clothing to sexuality yourself or to inspire sexual arousal

Transgenderism

When someone's gender identity does not conform to the sex they were assigned at birth

Impure thoughts/desire

Willfully entertaining sexual thoughts, in addition, we should do our best to avoid sexually provocative images on the internet and on tv