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| licentious lifestyle
| marital infidelity
| breach of chastity
| sexual temptations
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| Description
| advertised on TV news and in magazines for teens
| crisis in the life of a family
| harmful disease of singles
| Freud thought he was the first to study them
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| Relation to social realm
| public
| public or private
| public or private
| always personal
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| How common in Christian life?
| impossible
| happens on rare occasions
| happens at times, more so at a young age
| continual, ubiquitous
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| Does the Church condemn it?
| yes, unconditionally
| yes, discretion required
| yes, with discretion and help
| only voluntary submission is condemned
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| What Christian teachings apply to it?
| none whatsoever
| on marriage and repentance
| on the calling to marriage or abstinence
| on the unseen warfare of soul
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| What should a Christian do about it?
| hate it
| stop it for good, and restore the life of the family
| get out of it, preferably through marriage
| persevere, with struggle, reducing the influence
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| Difference between pervert and "natural" drive
| no difference
| no difference
| in finding the way out of sin
| in making decision for or against marriage
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