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Episode 51
Published 5 years, 2 months ago
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- Intro: Welcome to the podcast Interior Integration for Catholics -- the podcast formerly known as Coronavirus Crisis: Carpe Diem!
- Interior Integration for Catholics brings to you each week the best psychological information essential for your human formation, knowledge that is so fundamental in shoring up the natural foundation for your Catholic spiritual life.
- In this podcast, we ask and answer the tough questions about the real problems we Catholics have in our day-to-day lives, our struggles in the natural realm, the psychological difficulties that keep us from fully loving our Lord and our Lady in a deep, personal, intimate way.
- In order to free you to love God the Father, Jesus, the Holy Spirit and Our Mother Mary, I help to you focus inward on your interior integration -- to help you bring together the different parts of yourself into unity and harmony with God's truth, goodness and beauty
- Together, we are looking for a deep transformation in our mindsets, our heartsets and our bodysets, a radical transformation at the core of our being so that our souls unite with God and we can rise to the challenges and opportunities He provides us.
- I’m clinical psychologist Peter Malinoski and I am here with you, to be your host and guide.
- This podcast is part of Souls and Hearts, our online outreach at soulsandhearts.com, which is all about shoring up our natural foundation for the Catholic spiritual life, all about overcoming psychological obstacles to being loved and to loving God and neighbor
- This is episode 51, released on January 18, 2021
- This is the third episode in our series on sexuality.
- and it is titled: Top 10 Reasons Why Catholic Men Masturbate.
- And maybe some of you think you know why Catholic Men masturbate.
- But maybe, just maybe some of you are not satisfied with the simple, surface answers. Maybe some of you suspect that there are psychological reasons may be a lot deeper than the common explanations would suggest.
- I'm here to say that I think there is so much more going on with masturbation than what may be available in conscious awareness. I've been a psychologist since 2001 and in the last 20 years, I've had the opportunity to explore the reasons for masturbation in the lives of many, many Catholic men.
- Top ten reasons that Catholic men give for why they masturbate -- but wait, there's more
- Top ten deeper reasons why they really masturbate
- So if you are interested in getting a much more complete answers, answers that plumb the depths of our psyches stay tuned.
- Why not women? Fair question. I've seen far more Catholic men actively struggling with this than Catholic women -- and I'm going off my clinical experience. Masturbation is a great concern for some women. I just know less about it in the lives of women.
- Many of the points are likely to be equally valid for women as for men.
- Valuable for women to understand why Catholic men masturbate.
- Parents, be mindful of how much of this you may want your young children to hear.
- Definitions
- Important to define our terms and be clear about the concepts
- Confucius: The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper names
- APA Dictionary of Psychology: n. manipulation of one’s own genital organs, typically the penis or clitoris, for purposes of sexual gratification. The act is usually accompanied by sexual fantasies or erotic literature, pictures, or videos. Masturbation may also include the use of mechanical devices (e.g., a vibrator) or self-stimulation of other organs, such as the anus or nipples.
- Objections: overdone sense of propriety --
- Victorian age -- women not able to be examined
- Coded language, often poorly understood
- Oft
- Important to define our terms and be clear about the concepts