Author Topic: Immoral to own a Gym today? (Read 2643 times)

Disputaciones · « **on:** February 20, 2017, 11:37:23 AM »

I wonder if this would be immoral to do, what with all the cult of the body and immodesty inherent in fitness today.

I could personally be clothed modestly in public if I were to exercise in public (which I never do), but if you were to own a gym, you wouldn't be able to impose the public to only dress modestly, and coaching people seems problematic too.

I wonder if you could just put these things on the side and not worry about it, since exercising and coaching people are not inherently evil and what anyone does is their own business.

Capt McQuigg · « **Reply #1 on:** February 26, 2017, 02:56:27 PM »

Good point.

How do you operate a gym without implicitly encouraging lust? Women go to gyms to strut their stuff. They wear outfits that leave nothing to the imagination.

So yes, it would be very close to being immoral. Unless you specifically advertised as a Catholic fitness center and sold modest gym attire on site for those who needed them.

There's no telling what else goes on at a gym. Maybe those strutting young females arn't just showing off but are prostitutes advertising their wares? It's possible. I have seen a couple different true crime shows where a gym trainer was hired to commit a murder, so morality isn't developed alongside the muscles.

MarylandTrad · « **Reply #2 on:** February 27, 2017, 08:08:14 PM »

Based on what Pius XI wrote on coeducation, I certainly think that he would condemn coed gyms:

http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius11/P11RAPPR.HTM

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68. False also and harmful to Christian education is the so-called method of "coeducation." This too, by many of its supporters, is founded upon naturalism and the denial of original sin...These principles, with due regard to time and place, must, in accordance with Christian prudence, be applied to all schools, particularly in the most delicate and decisive period of formation, that, namely, of adolescence; and in gymnastic exercises and deportment, special care must be had of Christian modesty in young women and girls, which is so gravely impaired by any kind of exhibition in public.

Matto · « **Reply #3 on:** February 27, 2017, 08:11:47 PM »

I would say it is immoral to own a co-ed gym. If there are gyms I believe they should be segregated by sex.

Tiffany · « **Reply #4 on:** February 28, 2017, 04:50:56 AM »

There are gyms only for ladies.