Intrinsically and Gravely Disordered Action Now, the CDF is pointing a condemnatory finger at a book called Just Love, by one Sister Margaret A. Farley, and the author's apparently controversial take that self-love - i.e., masturbation - is just fine. The Vatican slammed the autoerotic act as "an intrinsically and gravely disordered action," in their latest mandate released yesterday, and dating from March 30, in response to the 2006 tome.