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| Description | Chastity a word is often used to express just abstaining from sex as if it were merely a synonym to celibacy. So it may be unexpected for some people to learn that, according to the doctrine of the Catholic Church, all who are faithful to Christ are called to lead a chaste life within their particular states of life. The Church's stance can make sense only if we know what "states of life" really are. According to the Church, there is unmarried chastity, and there also is married chastity. It was proved in a male chastity study that it’s very beneficial in not only the short term, but long term as well. Chastity of the eyes Chastity in Christian marriage involves guarding your eyes as well as your heart for your spouse. This enables you to be bound to your spouse with all capacity and grants your marriage the ability to be established on trust. When you marry someone in the Christian tradition, you make a vow to practice chastity of the eyes, which means that you promise to look at others, including your spouse, with pure intentions in the mind and in the heart. While love is defined by a fundamental desire for a deep bonding experience with your loved one, lust is distinguished by a more superficial sort of desire for simple pleasure and possession. Lust is a mere objectivization, but when a person looks at their spouse, they should look with love and appreciation of their loved one’s body and soul. Attraction and chastity in Christianity Our sexual attraction to other people is inherently a good thing, as it illustrates that God is present in all of His creatures in a beautiful way, especially with men and women that He created. However, it is the desire, the temptation to lust over others, and thinking of using them merely for self-gratification and pleasure that makes sexual attraction such a tricky subject. Chastity involves a strict discipline over the imagination that allows the soul to get away from lust and turn toward love. Once your eyes along with your heart are trained not to lust over other people, which includes even your own spouse, living a life of chastity becomes a joyful and natural skill. Relationships without chastity When sex enters a relationship it can pretty quickly become the center of it. It can cloud your judgment and prevent you from seeing who the other person really is. Often people are judging the relationship by how strong and intense the emotions and feelings are, and sex produces perhaps the most intense feelings between people. But it is more to do with how it makes us feel, as the misuse of sex can have severe destructive consequences. It is kind of like fire, when it is kept in the fireplace it’s ok but when it's getting outside it can burn the whole house down. And just so the sex, when it’s in marriage is a good thing, but outside of it can be very destructive. Being friends with benefits and having one-night stands can reduce sensuality to mere urges that have to be satisfied by any means necessary. As a result, people are being used in this pursuit, without any regard to intimacy or love in these situations. If we don't have chastity in our life, we can easily reduce people to mere objects, and sex will lose all its intimacy and sacredness. How chastity can help In contrast to that, Chastity paves the way for obtaining true love and allows us to see the person as a whole and their true value. It opens our eyes so we could see the true beauty of a person’s heart and personality. When we develop the virtue of chastity within we can start looking beyond a person’s physical attractiveness and can truly get to see Christ within them, and in this way, we can understand how to love someone better. Chastity in marriage is a bonding experience for both spouses Neither partner in a marriage has to feel used by the other and instead should be treated like he or she is truly loved and treated not just as a body but as a whole person, with body and soul. A spouse should need to lovingly inquire how their loved one feels psychologically, physically, and spiritually before deciding to initiate sex. What’s more, a considerate spouse shows how much they care by offering sincere respect to the other spouse in case he or she is not inclined to have sex. Consequently, neither spouse will ever feel objectified, but rather loved and appreciated, and not only in their mutual sex life. Chaste marriage is an act of balancing healthy affection and separation, sexual intimacy included. Chastity in marriage prevents spouses from fantasizing about more perfect people All marriages grow in a number of ways with age, and the bodies of the two spouses are changing as well. It is very important to exhibit compassion to your spouse and even yourself when it comes to changes in bodies during your marriage. It would be wise for spouses not to dream about having a more perfect partner, that would be more attractive or compatible physically, emotionally, or spiritually. Some daydreamer spouses may fall into some kind of a toxic mentality with fantasies of having a better spouse. It can truly kill your union, and with it, the very gift of a person with whom you live. If you are in a chaste marriage, remind yourself that as spouses, you share a deep and unique history between the two of you that no one else has, as well as a multi-layered love story that is worth fighting for and defending. Conclusion In a sacred marriage, spouses' pledge to have an unending love for one another through chastity mirrors God's unending love for them. And as a result, their worldly feelings of sexual satisfaction are being transformed into a deeper and more fulfilling sense of spiritual permanence. Chastity is traditionally a big part of Christian culture and is still an important part of a healthy marriage, which brings all sorts of psychological and spiritual benefits. |
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