serious form than bestiality, which is "the most serious", and than sodomy, which is the next most serious: "By procuring pollution [i.e., ejaculation apart from intercourse], without any copulation, for the sake of venereal pleasure ... pertains to the sin of 'uncleanness' which some call 'effeminacy' [Latin: mollitiem, lit. 'softness, unmanliness']." More recently, from the Youcat: According to Catholic Church teaching, "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 lessen or even extenuate moral culpability." Pornography The Catholic Church disapproves of pornography and says that civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic materials. Prostitution The Catholic Church condemns prostitution as a societal vice. Both St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine agreed in condemning prostitution as sinful. However, they defended the legal protection of prostitution by even Catholic monarchies lest it cause society to collapse. Rape The Catholic Church condemns rape as "always an intrinsically evil act." The Magisterium allows women the prudential use of Plan B by rape victims to prevent pregnancy. A 2009 edition of a USCCB document titled Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services'' states that treatment with medications preventative of ovulation or fertilization is permissible if testing proves that conception has not taken place. However, it also states that Catholic healthcare providers may not prescribe treatments to rape victims that will interfere with the implantation of a zygote within the womb. See also Women in the Catholic Church References External links "Sex & the Early Church" by Sam Torode Catholic moral theology Catholic theology of the body LGBT and Catholicism Sexuality and religion