"Would priests have to be first in line?
:-) "
While I appreciate the humor, I personally see nothing wrong with a priest choosing this form of 'release' over the type of behavior that's brought so much negative attention to the Church lately. Face it - it's biologically unhealthy for a male to have no form of release whatsoever.
What's the Church's position on nocturnal emissions? Are those 'grave sins' too?
I am going to let you be unhappy all by yourself.
One of the nice things about the Catholic Church is that it's easy to find what they teach.
What do you think? Can an involuntary action be a sin? Look up what they have to say about sin if you aren't sure what to think.
2352 By masturbation is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure. "Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action."138 "The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose." For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of "the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved."139
To form an equitable judgment about the subjects' moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety, or other psychological or social factors that can lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability.
So you think St. Paul is an unhelthy, bad role model? As well as Jesus?
So if a man was yunable to find a willing partner, then rape would be okay?