Prostitution does injury to the dignity of the person who engages in it, reducing the person to an instrument of sexual pleasure. The one who pays, sins grievously against himself: he violates the chastity to which his Baptism pledged him and defiles his body, the temple of the Holy Spirit. Prostitution is a social scourge. It usually involves women, but also men, children and adolescents. It is always seriously wrong to engage in prostitution.
Rape is the forcible violation of the sexual intimacy of another person. It does injury to justice and charity. Rape deeply wounds the respect, freedom. And the physical and moral integrity to which every person has a right. It causes serious damage which can mark the victim for life. It is always an intrinsically evil act.
Incest: most grave s the rape of children committed by their parents or those responsible for the education of the children entrusted to them.
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Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. Scripture presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity. Tradition has always declared that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered and are contrary to the natural law which limits the use of sexual acts to those who are married.
Homosexual and heterosexual persons are called to chastity by the virtue of self-mastery that strengthens inner freedom. Through the support of chaste friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, all persons can gradually approach Christian perfection.
Sexuality is ordered to the conjugal love of a man and a woman. In marriage the physical intimacy of the spouses becomes a sign and pledge of spiritual communion. The marriage bond between baptized persons is sanctified by the sacrament.
Sexuality, by means of which man and woman give themselves to one another through the acts that are proper and exclusive to spouses, is not simply biological, but concerns the innermost being of the human person as such. It is realized in a truly human way only if it is an integral part of the love which a man and woman commit themselves totally to one another until death.The acts in marriage by which the intimate and chaste union of the spouses take place are noble and honorable. The truly human performance of these acts fosters the self-giving they signify and enriches the spouses in joy and gratitude. Sexuality is a source of joy and pleasure for the married couple.