SEXUALITY & PROCREATION
one's value to the other.
PRINCIPLES AND DOCTRINE OF
SEXUALITY AND PROCREATION
(According to St. Thomas Aquinas)
1. Sex is a search for sensual
pleasure and satisfaction
releasing physical and psychic
tensions.
2. Sex is a search for a human
completion through an intimate
personal union of love
expressed by bodily union.
3. Sex is a social necessity for the
procreation of children and
their education in the family so
as to expand the human
community and guarantee its
future beyond the death of
individual members.
4. Sex is a symbolic
(sacramental) mystery,
somehow revealing the cosmic
order.
MEANING OF SEX TO AN INDIVIDUAL
- Through one’s body, a person is
accessible to other people
- Humans become conscious of
themselves and discover
themselves through this sexual
meaning
- A person’s whole being is being
revealed in the life of sex
- Become conscious of their life
situations, imperfections, and
limitations
- Awareness
A. MUTUAL EXPERIENCE OF EACH
OTHER’S WORTH
 In this mutual experience exists the
humanizing value of sexual love.
 "I need you in order to be me, as
you need me in order to be you" -
we therefore realize that the
meaning of our lives is related to
the presence of others.
 Sexual meaning reveals each
 It unfolds either one's worth, or
lack of it, to another person.
 Becoming aware of their value to
each other. In this mutual
experience exist the humanizing
value of sexual love.
 A man and a woman rise above
the objective level of existence and
realize their value together as
persons.
 Neither one nor the other becomes
an object to be used; rather, in the
sex-love duality, both mutually
realize themselves as persons or
as "I's" with dignity and freedom.

B. AN APPEAL FOR MUTUAL CARE
 From the standpoint of sexual love,
one can understand oneself and
one's much better if one is free
from egoism and self-
centeredness.
 The trust which true love shows,
however-the defenselessness it
displays-is itself an appeal for
mutual care & protection for each
other.
 In a different vein, sexual meaning
Invites Individuals to go beyond
themselves in order to bring
fulfillment unto themselves as well
as others.
 However, a person who is freed
from his/her self-centeredness.
And opens himself/herself up to
the other is exposed to danger.
He/she feels that love is a risk
because "open myself to another,
to trust another, give myself to
another, is to become
defenseless".
 This is the Riddle of love-the
gumball of falling in love with the
other.
C. SHARING EACH OTHER’S BEING
  In human sexuality, we find a
mutual sharing of selves, mutual
self-realization.
 Life becomes more meaningful if
E. MAKING
and when an individual shares it
HIMSELF/HERSELF
with someone he/she loves.
 In this way, human sexuality
becomes the language of love & it
is considered as one of the
deepest forms of human
communication.
 Two Individuals may find a mutual
sharing of selves or mutual
realization.
 One may discover that one cannot
be oneself without others.
 One explores the secrets of life
and sex and unravels the facts of
human nature.
 One fathoms the Inferiority of the
human being and witness is the
beauty and wonders of human
love.
F. PAIN OF UNREQUITED LOVE
 Human sexuality becomes the
language of love, and it is
considered as one of the deepest
forms of human communication.
 As the medium of mutual self-
fulfillment and mutual self-
revelation, human sexuality means
“a giving of the best, a giving of
self, it is a life of giving and a
giving of life. Means to give and
give until there is nothing more to
give”
D. SELF-DISCOVERY AS PERSONS
 Sexual meaning makes us aware
that we are persons, human
beings, and not objects or things.
 Only a person-a man or a woman-
is able to respond to my appeal,
she is one with whom I experience
G. AFFIRMATION
mutual self-giving & self-revelation.
FREEDOM
Thus, I also become better aware
of myself as a person responding
to her appeal (Johann 1963).
 An appeal of love radiating from
another person enables me to
discover a new me, who l really
am. I see myself better in the
other. The other is the mirror of the
real me.
EACH BE TRULY
 Responsible sexual love wills the
other's self-realization, destiny &
happiness.
 Reciprocal love demands that as I
make the other be, she likewise
make me be. We mutually create a
common dimension of meaning &
in the process we at the same time
actualize ourselves as persons
whose dignity is deepened &
heightened by the personalizing
element of sexual experience.
 God has made the sharing of
ourselves the law of our being, so
that it is in loving others that we
best love ourselves. (Merton:19)
 Loving another simply in order to
satisfy one's sexual desire always
ends with the pain of unrequited
love.
 This is why mere genital
satisfaction or self. stimulation
(regardless of how often & how
many times) still leaves a person
unhappily alone, helplessly
shallow, & personally barren,
depleted, &empty.
 Mutual self-fulfillment is free. It
cannot be forced, bought or bribed.
In a manner of speaking, it does
not consist in abduction, rape,
seduction, kidnapping,
commercialization, or a lie-down-
or-be-laid-off modus operandi.
OF SITUATED
 Every individual has his/her own
right to sex-this is an extension of
one's freedom of happiness (of
which sexual love, to some people,
is the climactic dramatization).
  Furthermore, my right to sex
involves a corresponding duty in
others to respect it, in proportion to
my duty to respect their own right
to sex.
 The state has the right to limit the
human right to sex for the sake of
the common good. It has the duty
to suppress obscenity, public
scandal, vice, immorality, & sexual
abuses, in order to protect its
citizens from these evils & their
disastrous & devastating
consequences.
H. MORAL DISCIPLINE
 Discipline is necessary & there can
be no discipline without restraint
(Leclerca 1954:51-75). This
restraint is necessary to safeguard
& guarantee one's freedom of sex.
 Constraint here is demanded for
the sake of freedom itself. - it is
meant to eliminate license or false
freedom, i.e., the freedom to do
whatever I want, anytime I want,
anywhere I want, & with whomever
I want (Fransen:68-69). It is
directive, not restrictive, of human
liberty.
 Freedom to engage in sex does
not mean the Freudian complete
sexual freedom - i.e., an unlimited
access to any woman or man
whom one might find sexually
desirable (Fromm 1966: 72).
I. ONES’ INHUMANITY TO THE
OTHER
 If & when sex becomes a
degradation of one's dignity.
 Whenever sexuality is no longer
sustained by a deep concern for
human dignity & integrity.
 Sexual Alienation-sex alienates us
from our desire to become
authentically human.
J. COMMITMENT AND
RESPONSIBILITY
 This commitment consists of care,
concern, & responsibility. (Fromm
1976:28; 1966:38)
 This responsibility is not an
external imposition Adolescent and
Child Development
 but an essential ingredient of true
caring for the other (Mayeroff
1965:462-474).
TYPES OF SEXUAL DEVIATION
- Refers to any form of sexual
activity which a given social group
regards as unnatural & abnormal
1. Homosexuality – this refers to sexual
relations between individuals of the same
sex
 Lesbianism-homosexuality
among women
 Pederasty - homosexuality
among men which denotes
homosexual anal
intercourse.
2.Transvestism - also called
transvestitism, cross dressing or eonism,
 The compulsive-obsessive
need of an individual,
almost always male, to
wear clothes worn
by the opposite sex.
 Psychological condition that
can be treated & cured
(Ellis:220-221)
3. Transsexualism - is a kind of sexual
deviation in which an individual (either
male or female) has an obsessive-
compulsive desire to belong to the
opposite sex. (Harry Benjamin)
- undergo surgery
4. Exhibitionist - this sexual deviation
refers to an individual's obsessive-
compulsive inclination to obtain sexual
gratification by public exposure of his/her
body sex organs.
5. Sadism - this is a form of sexual
abnormality in which sexual gratification
depends largely on the infliction of pain
upon others (i.e., sex partners)
6. Masochism - named after Leopold von
Sacher-Masoch (1835-95), an Australian
novelist who described condition,
masochism is a type of sexual aberration
in which sexual gratification depends
largely on undergoing physical pain or
humiliation.
7. Necrophilia - from the Greek nekros
‘corpse’& philos ’love’ necrophilia means
“love of corpses or cadavers”.
 Necrophilliac - is aroused by the
sight of a human corpse & tries to
have sex relations with it.
8. Necrosadism - a sexual abnormality in
which an individual experiences sexual
stimulation & orgasm by mutilating
corpses.
 A necrosadist enjoys cutting up
cadavers in order to arouse himself
sexually to orgasm (Ellis:223).
9. Sex murder - what distinguishes a sex
murderer from the immediately preceding
2 types of sexual neurosis is that the
former kills his partner solely in order to
enhance his own arousal & sexual
satisfaction.
10. Fetishism - another form sexual
aberration in which an individual becomes
sexually aroused by the mere sight of a
woman’s underwear (bra or panty), hair, a
shoe, a blouse, girdle, etc.
11. Pedophilia - an abnormal condition in
which a male is obsessively-compulsively
attracted to boys. A pedophile enjoys
engaging in homosexual acts with young
boys.
12.Sexual attachment to children –
broader than pedophilia, sexual obsession
with children includes both lesbian &
heterosexual fixations as well as interest
of men in boys.
13. Gerontophilia-from Greek gerontos
‘old folks’ & philos ‘love’ means love of
older persons.
14. Mixoscopia or voyeurism - all normal
individuals derive some sexual excitement
from viewing members of the other sex,
especially when these others are in the
nude.
15. Pygmalionism - is a rare sexual
deviation in which individuals are
obsessively & exclusively attracted to &
aroused sexually by statues especially
statues of nude women.
16. Bestiality - from the Latin bestialis
‘beast,’ bestiality refers to sexual
intercourse between a human being & an
animal of a different species
PREVENTIVE MEASURE OF SEX
DEVIATION
1. A child could be raised with a healthy,
non-guilty attitude towards human
sexuality. For an early age, one should be
taught that sex is good, beautiful, and
beneficial.
2. A child should be taught that some laws
are necessary for the governing of sex,
love, and marital relationships, and that
these laws are protective of one’s right to
sex and happiness.
3. Children should be given extensive and
Intensive sex education, in an objective
and impersonal manner, and should be
particularly instructed about sex
deviations. They should be shown that
deviant sex behavior is childish and
disturbed, and hence to be combatted and
to get rid of.
4. Children should be strongly encouraged
to have heterosexual experiences and to
be thoroughly unguilty about their
participation.
5.Children should be raised and nurtured
and brought up in such a way that they
like themselves and are willing to take
risks of sex-love challenges. They should
be made to realize that life is a blending of
success and failure, love and hate,
happiness and sorrow.
**Pornography**
SEXUAL ANOMALIES ASexual
abnormalities and infirmities may be
devoid of any moral bearing; they are
more pathological than ethical in nature,
they may not be moral issues at all,
number of this abnormal conditions may
be voluntary in course insofar as they are
the after-effects of deliberate and wild
acts. Only In this sense they will be
regarded as having moral significance.
 Dyspareunia - Painful Intercourse,
known medically as dyspareunia, if
prolonged for more than a few
weeks, is an unusual condition.
 Vaginismus - This pathological
condition occurs when strong
spasmodic contractions of the
muscles at the entrance of the
vagina result in the blocking of
penile-vaginal intromission.
 Priapism - From Priapos in Greek
mythology, the god of male
procreative power, priapism is a
prolonged and persistent erection
of the penis or clitoris, usually
without sexual desire, which
cannot be relieved by orgasm.
 Nymphomania - An extreme and
ungovernable sexual desire in
women, a nymphomaniac has an
intense sexual craving that is not
relieved by intercourse or orgasm,
which may drive her to near
madness
 Satyriasis - Refers to excessive
and uncontrollable sexual desire in
men. This intense and insatiable
desire on the part of a male
generally results from severe
neuropsychiatric disease or
disorder.
 Hermaphroditism - a very rare
condition in which an individual has
both male and female sexual
organs.
 Cryptorchidism - From the Greek
word, kryptos, meaning "hidden,"
cryptorchidism (or cryptorchism) is
a sex anomaly in which a male has
one or two hidden or undescended
testicles. If both testicles were
concealed, stopped growing
(atrophy), and lost their sperm
producing and hormone-
generating functions, the
concerned male may fall to
develop major masculine physical
characteristics.
 Penis Captivus - found In
sexological literature were a few
authentic cases of penis captivus
or the capture of the penis by the
vagina in such a way that the male
cannot release himself
APPLICATION OF ETHICAL THEORIES
 Natural law ethics perceives
human sexuality as sacred insofar
as it is God given: "God created
man in his own image...male and
female he created them (Genesis
1:27).
 In other words, God created man
and woman as sexual partners in
order to be fruitful, multiply, and
replenish the earth (Genesis 1:28)
 what is morally Evil or immoral is
the misuse and abuse of sex.
 Once an individual becomes aware
of the rightness and wrongness of
what he/she is doing, and he/chi is
willfully doing it, He/she may be
held morally responsible for it.
 In the light of Kant's ethical
principle, "Always act so as to
treat humanity, either yourself or
others, always as an end and
never only as a means”, several
insights may be explicitly stated on
 the moral issues of masturbation,
pornography, and prostitution.
 Rawl’s Concept of justice, the
exploitation of sex is not legitimate.
Every man and woman is held
inviolable. This inviolability founded
on justice is so sacrosanct that no
Individual, rich or poor, male or
female should be used as a means
for another persons’ end.
7 COMMANDMENTS FOR SAFER SEX
 Furthermore, Rawls’s stress is 1’s
duty to respect others as persons 1. Always use a condom or
and never to take advantage of spermicide
them nor use them for one’s own 2. Limit sex partners to one (1)
personal gains. 3. Stop using someone’s belonging
 Any form of human exploitation, and stop sharing things
therefore, which is deliberately 4. Do not have sex with people who
Intended to benefit one person or a have AIDs or have the virus
group of persons, it’s not morally 5. Do not let semen enter the mouth
legitimate. and vagina
 Fletcher’s situationism, and evil 6. Do not rent things that may have
means does not always nullify a used by someone else. Check the
good end; it all depends upon a packages
given situation. 7. Do not leave your personal clothes
 One may interpret Fletcher’s around
precepts to mean that prostitution,
upload necessity and survival,
maybe morally legitimate, but to
consider it as one’s business or
profession is morally wrong.
 Pragmatist and situationists moral
stands the poverty leads
individuals to vices-this respect,
prostitution, along with
pornography and nudity. Poverty
thrives in an unjust socioeconomic
order. This is the main cause of
child prostitution in the Philippines.

“One shapes one’s own destiny

through one’s moral decisions,
even as one is made by the
choices one makes.”-Timbreza,
Florentino T.