The natural tendency is to get sexual pleasure from another person even at great harm to the other person. Again, over the years in dealing with so many people, the passion for sexual experience can be so strong that not only, say, for the person not show love in marriage, genuine selfless love, and yet expect a marital embrace.
One will even resort to the most extreme measures to satisfy one’s pleasure and that whether either with one’s spouse or even with someone else. The passion of sex is the single most revealing manifestation of selfish desires. And that is why our nation, which has become, I think I can say this, an asylum of mentally disturbed people whose mental derangement is preoccupation with sex.
And behind this that’s the purpose of bringing out that our fallen human nature being spontaneously and congenitally selfish. Correspondingly, therefore, one’s sexual pleasure at no matter what cost to another person provided I am satisfied. I am sure I’ve said this maybe more than once here in class. When my Jesuit friend told me, remember Fr. John (Rōōk?), one of the few survivors of the Dachau Concentration Camp, remember, he was there about four and a half years, being a linguist so the Nazis kept him alive. After months of the torture in Dachau far into the night we’d sit and talk, professional people. How can human beings be so inhumanly cruel? You never knew on your way to the mess hall whether you would be shot down because part of the, well, schedule someone would regularly be shot down on the way to the meals; inoculation with some dreadful disease and then die in spasms of pain. And, for those of you who have not heard this (I’ve said this by now to, oh, a hundred or more audiences), we found that every single one of those S.S. guards as they called themselves, both men and women, every one was a sex pervert. And the two work together in the measure that a person is selfish to that extent that person’s sex passions are not in control. And in the degree to which they are out of control, to that extent is that person I use the word, bestially and, even stronger, demonically selfish.
—Fr.John Hardon, Servant of God
Excerpted from his talks (Chastity and Charity in Marriage
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
Institute on Religious Life
Sacrament of Matrimony series
Ann Arbor, Michigan 1993)
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