This seems consistent with what I learned in CCD and Catholic school in the 90s-00s. We were always told that sexual pleasure was increased in a marriage and a sign of god blessing the marriage, whereas sexual pleasure outside of a marriage was cheap and damaging.

Edit: side note, I didn’t think this fucked me up until I got married and realized I’d felt ashamed every other time I’d had sex. I never believed in god, and this is pretty obviously trying to steer behavior, so I thought I was unaffected, but it’s still a brain virus

I don't know why the headline made me Imagine the Pope getting really excited and calling all his homies in cause he found out what sex is

Me learning about masturbation for the first time: 😳

The priest showing me: 🤫

That would be doctrinal breaktrough, but the long strings of popes saying whatever they find convenient at the moment tuned the formal requirements for pope to be infallible pretty high. And i won't even mention that whatever cool thing Francis ever said as a pope have exactly zero influence on church reality.

“So are little boys!” — the clergy

Or is it the result of years of evolution to increase reproduction?

So is the pope speaking for/to God or not? Fucking Religions can't even be consistent within their own made up framework.

I wonder if the choir boys feel the same way

IIRC Song of songs is all about s3x or the pleasure of it. I struggled when i first read it back when i was still one of them.

@zephyreks Yeah, right. Claim it for God when I work so hard for it!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, who was appointed last July, came under fire for a book he wrote and published in the late 1990s entitled Mystical Passion: Spirituality and Sensuality.

The Pope had already tackled the vice of gluttony last week and there was no suggestion that his sermon on lust during Wednesday's general audience was related to criticism of the cardinal.

In December, Cardinal Fernández introduced a text, later approved by Pope Francis, detailing guidelines allowing priests to bless same-sex couples relationships that were still considered sinful.

In a lengthy response posted online, Cardinal Müller said that a priest blessing a homosexual union would be committing a "sacrilegious and blasphemous act".

Prelates around the world also released statements condemning the decision, including American conservatives, who have long been vocal in opposing the Pope's plans for reforming the Catholic Church.

Tensions reached a nadir when the Pope evicted outspoken critic US Cardinal Raymond Burke from his Vatican apartment and revoked his salary.

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UNLESS...

Pretty sure sexual pleasure is the result of friction, nerve endings, a bunch of neuro-chemicals, and a whole lot of fetishes. If anyone is letting us enjoy sexual pleasure, it’s the other department.