FINALS

• A complex area of study that focuses on all aspects of human persons as sexual beings

  Human Sexuality
• human sexual behaviors are the product of natural selection in evolution; behavioral patterns are genetically controlled

  Evolutionary Perspectives
• sex energy or libido is a major influence on personality and behavior

  Psychoanalytic Theory
• emphasizes how sexual behavior is learned and modified

  Learning Theory
• focuses on the social construction of categories, the ways they are applied to people, and the consequences for individuals and society (e.g Feminist theory, Queer theory) 

  Critical Theories
• the ways in which society influences our sexual expression

  Sociological Perspectives
• “Just as Your Son offered Himself as a willing sacrifice for the redemption of humanity, so too do we, who live in Christ, offer ourselves as willing sacrifices to the glory of God, striving in every way to live lives of holiness as we obediently follow Christ’s command to bear up our crosses daily and follow Him.”

  Romans 12
• • Sexuality plays an integral part in the development of our personality and in the process of its education. MFCT, 4
• The _____ is the response to the deep awareness of the gift... Through this truth and freedom that love is built up, which we must affirm is authentic love.

  freedom of the gift
• Feelings arise spontaneously the attraction which one person feels towards another often begins suddenly and unexpectedly but this reaction is in effect blind.

  Love as an Attraction
• Desire too belongs to the very essence of the love which springs up between man and woman. This results from the fact that the human person is a limited being, not self sufficient and therefore putting it in the most objective way needs other beings. The subject in love is conscious of [desire‘s] presence, knows that it is there at his or her disposal so to speak, but working to perfect this love, will see to it that desire does not dominate, does not overwhelm all else that love comprises.

  Love as a Desire
• Love is the fullest realization of the possibilities inherent in man. A genuine love is one in which the true essence of love is realized a love which is directed to a genuine (not merely an apparent) good.

  Love as a Goodwill
• Love is not just something in the man and something in the woman for in that case there would properly speaking be two loves but is something common to them. Love is by its very nature not unilateral but bilateral, something between two persons, something shared.

  The Problem of Reciprocity
• Sympathy is a manifestation of experience rather than of activity: people succumb to it in ways which they sometimes find incomprehensible themselves, and the will is captured by the pull of emotions and sensations which bring two people closer together regardless of whether one of them has consciously chosen the other.

  From Sympathy to Friendship
• Sympathy is a manifestation of experience rather than of activity: people succumb to it in ways which they sometimes find incomprehensible themselves, and the will is captured by the pull of emotions and sensations which bring two people closer together regardless of whether one of them has consciously chosen the other.
• • Friendship brings out the element of benevolentia or goodwill (I want what is good for you), and also the characteristic doubling of the subject, the doubling of the “I”: my “I” and your “I” form a moral unity, for the will is equally well inclined to both of them.
• Love is not just an aspiration, but rather a coming together, a unification of persons. Betrothed love’s decisive character is the giving of one‘s own person (to another). The essence of betrothed love is self-giving, the surrender of one‘s “I”. When betrothed love enters into this interpersonal relationship something more than friendship results: two people give themselves each to the other.

  Betrothed Love
• • Chastity is the virtue that calls us to use our sexuality in a reasonable, responsible, and faithful manner.
• Marriage is typically preceded by a period of dating. Dating is, in its broadest sense, getting to know someone and letting them get to know you so that you can decide whether you are interested in spending more time together.

  Western Culture
• Dating, courtship, and engagement are passages of marriage between the couples to see and exercise due diligence for the proper and acceptable progression of love before transcending it into a lifetime relationship.

  Philippine Context
• Typically nonexclusive, that is, one or both of the individuals may also have dating relationships with other people

  Casual Dating
• Much more serious than casual dating and is normally perceived as an exclusive relationship.

  Committed Dating
• An act of seeking to gain love or affection with a view toward marriage.

  Courtship
• A personal and mutual commitment of two people willing to investigate the possibility of marriage, which presupposes the possibility of an actual mature love relationship that will lead to engagement.

  Courtship
• • Courtship is not for strangers. 
  • Only after the couple develops a friendship should courtship be considered. 
  • To enter the exploration phase of courtship is to acknowledge that marriage is a possibility but not a promise. 
  • The basic purpose of this phase is to allow the couple to explore and discover their own emotions beyond that of simple friendship

  Exploration
• • The couple gets to know each another more deeply. 
  • The couple learns lessons of give and take, overcoming frustrations, and handling jealousies, insecurities, misunderstandings, tenderness, and the exaltation of the other

  Confirmation
• • The time when a new community is created deep in the soul. 
  • During this phase of emotional maturation, the image of marriage is exchanged for the reality.
  • There is absolute solidarity of thinking and feelings toward each other. 

  Pledging
• At the end of a successful courtship is engagement.
• Essential Requisites of Marriage

  • Legal Capacity
  • Consent Freely Given
• Formal Requisites of Marriage

  • Authority of the Solemnizing Officer
  • Marriage License
  • Marriage Ceremony
• Marriage is an intimate community of life and love, established by the Creator and endowed by Him with its own proper laws.
• These render a person incapable of validly contracting marriage . Divine positive disqualifying laws (leges inhabilitantes); either natural or ecclesiastical

  Direct Impediments
• An act of the will by which a man and a woman by an irrevocable covenant mutually give and receive one another for the purpose of establishing a marriage (Can. 1057).

  Consent
• What Code of Canon Law contains provisions on marriage meant to protect and preserve the sanctity of marriage law?

  1983
• Man cannot be married until 16.
• Woman cannot be married until 14.
• related by blood

  consaguinity
• between one spouse and relative of the other spouse

  affinity