A Topic of Moral Theology
Immodesty: particular cases
Particular cases of immodesty: looks, touches, dress and company, and what each amounts to.
In the index as Immodest looks · Lustful conversations · Painters, as regards immodest things · Physicians, as regards immodest things · Bad thoughts · Cooperation in immodest pictures and statues · Dances · Immodest act · Immodest gestures · Insufficiently modest garments · Lingering pleasure · Looks · Lustful embraces, specification of them · Lustful kisses: specification · Lustful touches, specification of them · Obscene phantasms · Obscene songs · Obscene writings · Public theaters · Sellers of writings inciting to lust · Tender, immodest words · Those hearing shameful things · Those reading base, indecent books · Visiting a museum of the arts
In the manuals
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Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. III, Bk. I, Pt. II, Sect. II, Chapter II. Applications, n. 72 — Before we apply the principles set forth to particular cases, these things should be noted: 1. In what follows, immodest parts are understood to be the genitals and the parts near them; less honorable parts, the chest an… Read in context →
Theologia Moralis: Principles — Responses — Counsels
Vol. III, Tomus IV: On Chastity and …, Tr. V, § 3. On Various Immodest Acts, nn. ¶1, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131 & 132 (14 passages — hover a number to read it)
Pastoral Questions
Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions, I. Questions Concerning Ch…, On Chastity and Lust, Question Five: Concerning Imperfect Lust, or Impudicity, nn. ¶376–¶394, ¶400, ¶401, ¶402 & ¶403 (23 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading The Opposite Vice, or Immodesty — McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Vermeersch, On Chastity · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)