YOUCAT Question n. 411 - Why is prostitution a form of fornication?
(Youcat
answer) In prostitution “love” becomes a commodity and the person is degraded
to an object of pleasure. That is why prostitution is a serious offense against
human dignity and a serious sin against charity.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 2355) 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 gravely against himself: he violates the
chastity to which his Baptism pledged him and defiles his body, the temple of
the Holy Spirit (Cf. 1 Cor 6:15-20). Prostitution is a social scourge. It
usually involves women, but also men, children, and adolescents (The latter two
cases involve the added sin of scandal.). While it is always gravely sinful to
engage in prostitution, the imputability of the offense can be attenuated by
destitution, blackmail, or social pressure. 2355
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) Certainly those who profit from prostitution
— human traffickers, pimps, clients — burden
themselves with greater guilt than the women, men, children, and young people
who sell their bodies, often under duress or in situations of dependence.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 2339)
Chastity includes an apprenticeship in
self-mastery which is a training in human freedom. The alternative is
clear: either man governs his passions and finds peace, or he lets himself be
dominated by them and becomes unhappy (Cf. Sir 1:22). "Man's dignity
therefore requires him to act out of conscious and free choice, as moved and
drawn in a personal way from within, and not by blind impulses in himself or by
mere external constraint. Man gains such dignity when, ridding himself of all
slavery to the passions, he presses forward to his goal by freely choosing what
is good and, by his diligence and skill, effectively secures for himself the
means suited to this end" (GS 17).
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