Catholic Sexuality
Terms
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- Intimacy
- the state of being in a close, personal relationship.
- Responsibility
- accountability, reliability, trustworthiness.
- Environment
- the world around a person; where a person lives and the social, economic, and political atmosphere in the family, neighborhood, school, and Church.
- Genetic
- relating to or determined by the origin or development of something; related to the traits carried in genes.
- Genital
- having to do with the sexual or reproductive organs.
- Sexuality
- one's way of relating to others as a male or a female person.
- Sexual Orientation
- a person's direction or sexual attraction toward others; toward members of the other gender or members of the same gender.
- Freedom
- liberation from restraint or the power of another, within reasonable bounds.
- Abstinence
- the choice not to engage in intercourse outside of the situation intended by God, namely marriage.
- Chastity
- the religious vow to live chastely in the unmarried state; the virtue that helps you control your sexual powers and use them in proper and morally right ways.
- Culture
- the beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a group.
- Gender
- what "sex" a person is, male or female.