What does a priest do if they have libido?

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What does a priest do if they have libido?

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  1. UptownShenanigans Avatar

    Seek guidance, pray, or break their vows

  2. Apprehensive_Town778 Avatar

    They take a vow of celibacy which means no marriage and no intercourse but I guess they can still whack off as needed?

  3. Mrnicelefthand Avatar

    Ask for forgiveness.

  4. Sweet-Sunflowersx Avatar

    Used to work at a Catholic hospital. The priests there would hit the gym or pool when they needed to work off excess energy.

  5. fulltrendypro Avatar

    Priests are expected to remain celibate, but having libido is a normal human experience — it doesn’t go away because of a vow. Most deal with it through prayer, self-discipline, spiritual focus, and sometimes by seeking guidance from a mentor or confessor. Some may struggle more than others, and that’s why personal support systems and counseling are important within the Church

  6. stevenfernandez247 Avatar

    Priests still experience libido, but those who take vows of celibacy manage it through prayer, discipline, and spiritual practices in line with their faith.

  7. the_mad_phoenix Avatar

    Well, despite the vocation, not all priests are celibate. With roman Catholic priests, celibacy is called for buuuut…. here are plenty of men and women who have consensual relationships with priests. Some might prefer to masturbate for relief. Some pray through it or exercise. Anglican priests are allowed to marry, so I guess they plan netflix and chill sessions. Overall, different strokes for different priests. ..literally

  8. bunnyhugbandit Avatar

    Depends on their branch of Christianity. Some allow for marriage. But a serious answer, without snarking about all the altar boys and nuns that get assaulted, they likely go to confession, pray and seek advice through various churchy ways.

  9. MrLanesLament Avatar

    Fuckin hose down a kitchen sink like the rest of us?

  10. swede242 Avatar

    Jokes aside: This is what is a called a ‘passion’ in particular Eastern Orthodoxy but afaik also in western catholicism.

    Passion quite literally mean suffering and it denotes all those things we want and feel a strong attraction to doing. We suffer our passions as it were.

    For clergy there is a lot that they do not do. Religous restrictions on things people want to do. That is tempering your passions and overcoming them. The theological basis is that you should serve the lord and not your base pleasures.

    Your run of the mill self help spiel about “controlling your emotions” is basically the same thing.

    If you get a strong hunkering for a cheeseburger on a fasting day the idea is you focus on the religious rules and overcome that and dont eat a cheeseburger.

    Some are fine with not eating a cheeseburger, others struggle more.

    Libido is the same. Some have an easier time overcoming that urge than others. Or to phrase it in Christian parlance: Some have an easier time suffering that passion than others.

    What are clergy supposed to do (according to the church) if they have a strong libido?

    Same as a clergyman with a strong urge to break the fast: overcome it.

    Edit: Before another one writes: “Oh no, if they cant handle it they rape kids”. Consider what that notion is saying: It is saying that when a person gets no sexual release, it is understandable they will gravitate towards sexual assaults.

    That is beyond stupid and a messed up reasoning.

    The widespread sexual misconduct amd subsequent cover up by churches has many underlying reasons: suppressings ones libido is not one of them. Unless your libido was already messed up from the start.

    Normal human beings don’t start to get rapey or become pedophiles if they dont get any.

  11. Xenobsidian Avatar

    All jokes aside, they actually expect them to have a libido, they are humans after all, they just expect them to not act on it. It’s the sacrifice they have to make and their way to fully dedicate them self to the church.

    Historically, though, the entire no sex thing was purely invented for political reasons. The church owned a lot of land and they ran in to the issue that every time a high ranking member of the church had kids, the land got split between them, which, over time, let the church loose land and land, back then, was equivalent with wealth and power.

    The solution was that officially priests were not allowed to have sex. The church actually didn’t cared if the priests actually had sex or not, but since it was forbidden, no priest could have legal children even though everyone knew that they had children and who they were.

    But a child that is not legally acknowledged is not entitled to the anything their father owned. Problem solved!

    Nowadays this has no actual function anymore, because the entire system of ownership does not work that way anymore. Thats why there are more and more people who want to get rid of that tradition, so far the Catholic Church holds on to it for various reasons.

  12. macyyxx Avatar

    Girl, they’re human too — so yeah, they do get libido. But if they’ve taken a vow of celibacy, they’re supposed to take care of it by praying, staying busy, and basically just not acting on it
    Hard? Absolutely. But that’s the promise they made.

  13. Slim-Shmaley Avatar

    Bang Kids and tell them if they tell anyone they’ll go to hell.

  14. MarathoMini Avatar

    When I was a teenager, the priest in our church was giving a sermon in which he talked about sin.

    He said things like, “We aren’t supposed to curse, but we curse. We aren’t suppose to lie, but we lie.” All very mundane stuff and then he said “We aren’t supposed to masturbate, but we masturbate.”

    As a teenage boy I said pheww thank goodness he understands. lol. But I remember my Aunt walking down to our house that afternoon and just having a near heart attack talking about him saying that.

    So at that time I was thinking so that is how he deals with celibacy. That is until a couple of years later when he was moved to another parish because he was having sex with his female housekeeper.

    He got moved and then she went to the next parish too. lol.

  15. alfienoakes Avatar

    What is Altar Boys?

  16. Weird-Reality3533 Avatar

    There are Protestant priests who really do call themselves priests who are not required to be celibate. My grandpa was one of them and he was married.

  17. Aggressive_Habit_207 Avatar

    Nowadays there is no longer so much discipline to focus on other things. They break celibacy. I know several priests who have lovers.
    Several indeed.

  18. ilikepisha Avatar

    The poop hole loophole

  19. Coup_de_Tech Avatar

    Become a pharmacist.

  20. HypothermiaDK Avatar

    If they are any religion other than Catholic, they fuck.

  21. FlyDestroyer Avatar

    Didn’t the Catholic Church and other denominations cover this up and then fought it in the courts then lost? Some denominations are still denying and hiding what their priests, ministers and leaders of faith do when they have “libido”. But all they gotta do is ask for forgiveness and they’ll send you to a different church/parish where it happens all over again.

  22. DetectiveObjective00 Avatar

    They have different approaches in dealing with it. One priest I know spends his time in the convent kneeling in prayer and another one goes on a night out picking up women using his “I’m a priest” pick up line.

    The other priests I know of, well I don’t know how they address such thing. Only the aforementioned priests were the ones who answered this very question, in which I witnessed them do those exact things they said.

  23. smolnstacked Avatar

    Probably prays and scrolls past thirst traps like it’s a test from God.

  24. PaigePossum Avatar

    Priests in what religion/denomination?

    Not all groups have a prohibition on marriage. It used to be allowed even for Catholic priests, Greek Orthodox church also allows married priests (but you need to be married prior to ordination).

  25. ExactEntertainment53 Avatar

    They visit the altar boys

  26. HeroBrine0907 Avatar

    Self control? It’s not that hard.

  27. FcukUInParticular Avatar

    They certainly dont duck’em in the pooh sea.

  28. ueifhu92efqfe Avatar

    for a responsible priest, the answer is the same thing you do when you’re hungry while fasting. you just, dont act on it.

    a good friend of mine’s words about this were (paraphrased of course) that someone is not pious for acting celibate if they’re asexual (he obviously didnt use the word asexual but the concept of “guy who doesnt feel sexual attraction” is exactly new), because it’d be like calling someone without fear brave. An ascetic who doesnt want what they’re abstaining from in the first place isnt an ascetic at all, but just a guy living their normal life. Celibacy requires desire in the first place, for the same reason you would not call an 8 year old a celibate you would not call an asexual person a celibate.

    for an irresponsible priest, the answer is to touch a child usually, but those are not priests but pricks with money larping as good people.

  29. frankiedontplaydat Avatar

    Stop sugar coating. They touch lil kids and get away with it cuz church is corrupt.

  30. anemone_within Avatar

    My brother is a Christian and regularly attends a celibacy group that supports each other in resisting lust. He says half those in attendance to those meetings are pastors.

    So I’d guess that priests probably talk to each other through the tough times, at least the good ones. Like anyone dealing with a struggle, they lean on their support system to get through it. Or they break, and hurt someone.

  31. ElectionEasy2343 Avatar

    Met a franciscan monk once (knew people in theology college), wore the full cassock and knotted rope in public, everything, and I asked the question in a tactful way. He straight up said that he masturbated a lot.

  32. Huongster Avatar

    Just look at the news

  33. ClassicLunatic Avatar

    Go fuck themselves.

  34. michel_poulet Avatar

    They fuck a kid

  35. Civicius Avatar

    The amount of underwear changing during the night that priest do must be insane

  36. customersmakemepuke Avatar

    They have sex like any other man & often times with minors. I’m not even trying to be snide or funny. Catholic men, including priests, can do pretty much whatever they want & as long as they do proper confession & all the absurd semantics they still go to heaven as it’s believed. Catholic women however don’t have the same luxuries or allowances. Religion is a joke.

  37. jinxykatte Avatar

    No, too easy. Not going near this one lol. 

  38. OkGold8148 Avatar

    💀💀they become pedos

  39. RAB2204 Avatar

    All jokes aside, kids.

  40. owaalkes Avatar

    In Germany there is a “workaround” called Pfarrhaushälterin.
    Fancy name for maid with benefits. /s

  41. Ok-Somewhere7098 Avatar

    Why do choir boys part their hair in the middle…

  42. xubax Avatar

    Rape children.

  43. Dangerous-Today1874 Avatar

    Walk down to the nearest elementary school.

  44. Trekker71211 Avatar

    Beat the Bishop

  45. Ticail Avatar

    They groom children of course

  46. Ok_Camel_1949 Avatar

    When I was a kid, the local priest met up with a married woman at my parents pool.

  47. c0l245 Avatar

    See hookers

  48. WeirdMeaning7702 Avatar

    children’s question

  49. Purple-Mail-4155 Avatar

    Little alter boys.

  50. Chikungunyaaa Avatar

    I hate to break it to you, but priests do have libido.

  51. 432202046 Avatar

    you should have heard it on the news

  52. Senorpuddin Avatar

    Get moved out of Boston apparently.

  53. VirginiaLuthier Avatar

    I asked a man who left the Catholic priesthood exactly that. He said ” You just go somewhere and jack off”……

  54. HystericPanic Avatar

    Italian here. Most have sex like anyone else, but they are very discreet about it.

  55. Awwa_ Avatar

    Children apparently.

  56. what_the_fuckin_fuck Avatar

    They beat the hell out of the bishop.

  57. Notfirstusername Avatar

    According to a couple a documentaries I have seen….. they do some pretty awful shit to children, get caught, then get moved to a new Location with a fresh batch of children.

  58. LouisXIV_ Avatar

    I used to work for a Catholic diocese. The bishop’s secretary once told me about an unnamed priest who had a “lapse in his vow of celibacy.” There was another man who left the priesthood for a year or so, got a girlfriend, broke up with her, and then rejoined the priesthood lol.

  59. LouisXIV_ Avatar

    Fun fact: Only Roman Catholic priests can’t be married. Eastern Catholic priests can and do have wives.

  60. wnabhro Avatar

    I’m pretty sure that we all know the answer to this… Even though stereotypes are often based on limited or inaccurate information, you can find an excess of child abuse throughout the church and almost just as many cover ups

  61. DrDirt90 Avatar

    little boys?

  62. Organic_Condition196 Avatar

    You know what they do. Everything the have been accused of.

  63. Conscious-Quality789 Avatar

    Sublimation is the key, suppression leads to problems.

  64. Struzzo_impavido Avatar

    You dont wanna know

  65. CantTouchMyOnion Avatar

    That’s why there were so many alcoholic priests.

  66. Affectionate_Sea367 Avatar

    Mostly abuse children.

  67. bipohigh710 Avatar

    We call that “miništrant” in slovak. Google that

  68. Rich_Celebration6272 Avatar

    They sleep around. They have girlfriends, they have boyfriends, they have plenty of kids. The only thing that they don’t have is wives. In my country, priests don’t let me a small thing like their vows keep them from a good time. They are all whoring, alcoholics who spend church funds on a life of luxury while preaching about how noble poverty is.

  69. tas680 Avatar

    From my understanding, they typically use an altar boy.

  70. MenudoMenudo Avatar

    The real answer is that some of them see denial of their needs and desires as a means of proving their devotion to god, and their spiritual “journey” involves overcoming their needs as part of their faith. (I used brackets not to be sarcastic, but because I’m not sure I’m using the right term.) However, some of them masturbate, some of them secretly take lovers or see prostitutes, and a depressing number of them abuse their position of authority and social power within their congregation to sexually coerce people, too often including raping children.

    For the Catholic Church, the Vatican’s own investigations in the late 90’s revealed that up to 5% of priests had credible allegations of raping one or more children, and to this day, when the church discovers a priest is a rapist or abuser, they’ll move them to another diocese, usually in another country, and protect them from prosecution from civil authorities. There have been several scandals, mostly in Southern Europe but also other places, where it was revealed that priests were using convents of nuns as their own private brothels, and that they had secured thousands of abortions over the decades.

    So basically, priests do what most people do when they’re horny – the jerk off or fuck. But because their whole deal is pretending they don’t do that stuff, it makes it hypocritical, illicit and often predatory, since it has to be kept secret.

  71. Cheap-Doughnut1822 Avatar

    They just libidon’t!

  72. smokeyleo13 Avatar

    They sneak on dating apps like everyone else. Officially though, the vows keep them chaste and holy 👼🏿

  73. ViniusInvictus Avatar

    At some point, if male and their reproductive system still functional, things will need emptying to make room for a newer batch and that’s when they have a nocturnal emission in conjunction with an erotic dream their brains will manifest with no control on their part.

    Kinda also hints at how stupid the religion is to implement unnatural curbs that their bodies will overcome one way or another in an involuntary manner.

    🧠 -> 🚮

  74. Same_Research9808 Avatar

    Come now; you don’t live under a rock… They rape the children that they have access to and are then moved around to different areas so they don’t face any punishment for their horrifying crimes against humanity.

  75. Single_Load_5989 Avatar

    not what, who. and who? kids

  76. NummyGamGam Avatar

    They usually find a kid

  77. doctorducklol Avatar

    “Ah yes. Let’s completely deny a normal part of our humanity that was given to us without our choice. Instead of channeling that love and attraction into someone special in marriage, let’s just completely abstain from it and claim that it makes God happy even though we will never know the mind of God.” Wow Catholicism is so ridiculous lol

  78. Curious_Associate904 Avatar

    5-10 years for child molestation usually.

  79. AshleighSlays1986 Avatar

    diddle children obviously

  80. NivekTheGreat1 Avatar

    Calling all priest rapist or child molesters is like saying Taco Bell gives everyone the shits. Sure it happens often but not all the time. The news, surprise, exaggerates.

    But it does give me a complex. Was I not good enough? I never got a second glance from a priest.

  81. Practical_Attorney67 Avatar

    What are these “jokes” all preface their post with? Priest do fuck kids. Thats no joke. 

  82. Asleep-Dimension-692 Avatar

    Catholic ones rape young boys.

  83. Poetic-Noise Avatar

    Rape kids & get to travel for free.

  84. biteme109 Avatar

    Nuns, that’s what they’re for.

  85. TheAnarchemist Avatar

    children usually

  86. Phil_McCraxkin Avatar

    Young boys it would seem.

  87. Nice_poopbox Avatar
  88. activeseven Avatar

    Be fruitful and multiply…

  89. NoAssociate5573 Avatar

    I think there’s been enough scandals for us to know the answer to that one. 🤮

  90. honato Avatar

    little boys. I thought that was pretty common knowledge.

  91. Virtual_Ordinary_119 Avatar

    Find a children usually

  92. null640 Avatar

    They rape children.

  93. Cooked_kiwi Avatar

    The altar boys.