A Topic of Moral Theology
Relations for Pleasure Alone (Solam Voluptatem)
Whether spouses may seek the marriage act for pleasure alone: Innocent XI's condemned proposition, the debate over solam voluptatem, and the place of affection between the ends.
The works themselves ask 3 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Also asked about as…
marital relations for pleasure (ed.)
In the index as A grave excusing cause · End of sexual love · Harm preventing intercourse · Intercourse apt for generation · Pleasure · The French disease · Abortion · Affection between spouses · Conjugal debt · Contagion · Distinction of pleasure from happiness · Harm to offspring preventing intercourse · Innocent XI · Old person · Phthisis and the use of marriage · Physicians · Rendering the conjugal debt · Requesting the conjugal debt · Solam voluptatem (relations for pleasure alone)
In the manuals
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Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.
Vol. II, Treatise on Matrimony, Ch. VIII, Art. I, § I. On the Liceity of the Conjugal Act Considered in Itself, nn. 908, 908, 908, 908 & 908 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)
On Chastity and on the Contrary Vices: A Doctrinal and Moral Treatise
Ch. I, Art. I, § 1. On the End of Morally Good Intercourse, nn. 224, ¶1250, ¶1251, ¶1252, ¶1253, ¶1254, ¶1255, ¶1256, ¶1257, ¶1258, ¶1259, 225, ¶1260, ¶1261, ¶1262, ¶1263, ¶1264, ¶1265, ¶1266, 226, ¶1267, ¶1268, ¶1269, ¶1270, ¶1271, ¶1272 & ¶1273 (27 passages — hover a number to read it)
Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Vol. III, Pt. II, Tr. X, Ch. V, Article I. On The Liceity Of The Conjugal Act, n. 692 — 692. 5. The conjugal act is illicit because of pleasure alone, such that pleasure is its sole and ultimate end. Hence Innocent XI condemned proposition 9: "The act of matrimony exercised because of pleasure alone is enti… Read in context →
New Questions, Old Answers: Catholic Morals and Natural Family Planning
Clark, New Questions, Old Answers, Chapter Three: A Solution, Affection and Solam Voluptatem, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12 (12 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Morality in Marriage — McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Vermeersch, What Is Marriage? · Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Concina, Compendium — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)