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Paul wrote in the new testament that we are free from the law, no longer measured according to that "yard stick" so to speak. But he also said that "all things are permissable, yet not all things are profitable for me, and I will be mastered by none of them" He understood that even though, thru grace, he was allowed to do what ever he wanted and still be a christian, it would not be good for him to do what ever he wanted, because these things could end up becoming life controlling issues for him, and for the people he was writing to, and that they would be surrendering the freedom gained for them by Jesus to simply fulfill their drives. The first time I had to be put in a mental hospital, one of the guys in the place had a obsessive compulsive disorder, and he couldn't quit jerking off. I'd say thats a problem. For all christians, catholic or otherwise, their first allegiance has to be to Jesus and the bible, not their church and it's man made rules. What the catholic church believes is dogma, or holy writ, is not neccessarily biblical, and therefore not as relevant as the bible.
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"My give up, my give up." - Jar Jar Binks
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