Sexuality - Peter An

“Sexuality is about your sexual feelings, thoughts, attractions and behaviours towards other people.”
Better Health Channel specifies that it is normal to be confused about one’s sexuality, and that it may take some time for you to “figure out the sexuality that fits you best.”
Different types of sexuality:

Heterosexual: “Most people are attracted to the opposite sex – boys who like girls, and women who like men, for example. These people are heterosexual, or ‘straight’.”
Homosexual: “Some people are attracted to the same sex. These people are homosexual. Around 10 per cent of young Australians experience same-sex attraction, most during puberty. “
Bisexual: “Some people are attracted to both men and women.”

“Bisexual does not mean the attraction is evenly weighted – a person may have stronger feelings for one gender than another.”

Asexual: “A person who identifies as asexual (‘ace’ for short) is someone who does not experience, or experiences very little, sexual attraction.”

“Asexuality is not a choice, like abstinence (where someone chooses not to have sex with anyone, whether they are attracted to them or not).”

Better Health Channel clarifies that discrimination based on sexuality remains to exist, even though “Equality and freedom from discrimination are fundamental human rights that belong to all people.”
The LGBTI people are more prone to “depression, anxiety, substance abuse, homelessness, self-harming and suicidal thoughts, compared with the general population.” (Better Health Channel)

“Sexuality affects all aspects of the human person in the unity of his body and soul. It especially concerns affectivity, the capacity to love and to procreate, and in a more general way the aptitude for forming bonds of communion with others.”
“Everyone, man and woman, should acknowledge and accept his sexual identity. Physical, moral, and spiritual difference and complementarity are oriented toward the goods of marriage and the flourishing of family life. The harmony of the couple and of society depends in part on the way in which the complementarity, needs, and mutual support between the sexes are lived out.”
“Each of the two sexes is an image of the power and tenderness of God, with equal dignity though in a different way. The union of man and woman in marriage is a way of imitating in the flesh the Creator's generosity and fecundity.”

“Chastity means the successful integration of sexuality within the person and thus the inner unity of man in his bodily and spiritual being. Sexuality, in which man's belonging to the bodily and biological world is expressed, becomes personal and truly human when it is integrated into the relationship of one person to another, in the complete and lifelong mutual gift of a man and a woman.”

“The virtue of chastity therefore involves the integrity of the person and the integrality of the gift.”

“The chaste person maintains the integrity of the powers of life and love placed in him. This integrity ensures the unity of the person; it is opposed to any behavior that would impair it. It tolerates neither a double life nor duplicity in speech.”
“Chastity includes an apprenticeship in self-mastery which is a training in human freedom.”

“The alternative is clear: either man governs his passions and finds peace, or he lets himself be dominated by them and becomes unhappy.”

“Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.” They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.”
“The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.”
“Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.”

“God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”” (Genesis 1:28)
Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man[b] this one was taken.” Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.” (Genesis 2:23-24)
“He answered, “Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”” (Matthew 19:4-6)
“For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone accept this who can.”” (Matthew 19:12)
“You shall not commit adultery.” (Exodus 20:14)

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