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Is masturbation right or wrong?

The Word of God does not offer any direct guidance on the subject of masturbation. I believe the reason for the omission is because this is a moral issue that needs to be left up to the individual to determine right from wrong.

From a biological viewpoint, masturbation itself would appear to be a common function of sexuality. The real area of concern should be what goes on in a person's mind. If during the act, someone is having adulterous thoughts about his neighbor's wife, Matthew 5:28 comes to mind "whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart."

For people who have a deep struggle with masturbation, I would say that we all still have our old sinful nature, which strikes in times of weakness. Because no one has reached the state of perfection, God's grace is continuous process that is there to cover all the sins we commit.

Why won't God tell me it's ok to masturbate? And why is it referred to as a deep struggle? Hand versus genitalia - the Christian struggle - on the next Benny Hinn

What if you're good at masturbating, hence no deep struggle?

Isn't masturbation a struggle in and of itself? Push, pull... y'know.

Hey, isn't that Fab 5 Freddy?

to the left, yes

but the key is what this picture is taken from

God told me to masturbate. At least I'm assuming he did by giving me the Hot Girls Thread.

I'm going to have to hang out with nuns.

Wasn't this a Seinfeld episode?

*slams money on counter* I'm out!
Have you read the stuff in this link? Holy cow, mormons are scary.

masturbation is great when there is nothing to do

holy shit!! i would lost all my friends

I wish I could stop.

--PunkDavid

If you are male and a catholic, you cannot masturbate because then the life giving sperm would be "wasted".

Boys, you must only use your tool for procreation, or at least that is what the catholics say.

It is less clear for females because there is no ejaculate to "waste". Our little ova stay perfectly still while masturbating...

So if you will excuse me...

Brush Up Your Bible
http://www.gracecathedral.org/enrichmen ... 1105.shtml

Onanism

And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord slew him.
And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.
-- Genesis 38: 7-10 (KJV)


As a favored son of God's chosen patriarch, Jacob (a.k.a. Israel), Judah should have been sitting pretty. But in fact his family life is miserable. Judah's first son, Er, turns out to be "wicked in the sight of the Lord"; so God kills him. Judah's second son, Onan, likewise "displease[s] the Lord," so God kills him, too. But at least in Onan's case we're told why.

You might think Onan's sin was "onanism," an eponymous English term for masturbation. But such is not exactly the case. True, Onan "spills his seed on the ground," but he doesn't do it all by himself. Jacob has put him on the spot, by means of a peculiar tribal law: though Er is dead, if Er's brother impregnates Er's widow (Tamar), then any resulting son will be taken as Er's. It's bizarre enough that Onan could father Er's son if he wanted to. What's more, since primogeniture (succession through the first-born son) was of supreme importance at this stage of Israelite society, he's compelled by duty to do so.

But Onan, rebelling at the idea that his own child will be credited to Er, tries to pull a fast one. He does begin to perform his duty with Tamar -- several times, in fact. But, each time, he withdraws at the crucial moment. It is this outrageous shirking of duty that so displeases Yahweh, not the method Onan uses to spill his seed -- which is technically coitus interruptus.

Nonetheless, when "onanism" first appeared in English (in the eighteenth century), it was quaintly defined as "the crime of self-pollution." Occasionally, the term has been employed with slightly more fidelity to the Bible; A. K. Gardner, for example, referred in his 1892 work Conjugal Relations to "the best-calculated refinements of conjugal onanism." In a more recent development, "onanism," once virtually restricted to private activities by men, has been given wider application, as when George Steiner refers in Language and Silence (1967) to some "recent university experiment in which faculty wives agreed to practice onanism in front of the researchers' cameras."

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So, the Christians misinterpreted the sacred book of my people. AGAIN.

--PunkDavid (and Moses said, "Wank away.")

exactly..."every sperm is sacred..."

and jesus punkdavid, how the hell do you know so much?