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Cicero
August 11th, 2012, 08:23 PM
So i was just searching stuff and came across this article. And to me it sounded like its ok to masturbate, but not a lot. Masturbation should be taken as a treat more so than something to just pass the time. Thats what i got from it. What about you ?
I also got from this article, that masturbating to porn, is not only a sin. But it can prove a false reality. So what im trying to say, is that men will get less sexually aroused toward most women, because they have such expectations for them to look like women in playboy and such.
At some point (probably more than once) during these years, you will need to deal with the subject of masturbation . As children approach adolescence, you will have to make a judgment call on what to say about the significance of self-stimulation after puberty arrives. It is extremely likely that masturbation leading to sexual climax will occur at some point, especially for a male. If he is racked with guilt about it and repeatedly vows never to let it happen again, he will probably expend a lot of energy feeling like a moral failure and worrying unnecessarily about his spiritual welfare.

But when masturbation becomes a routine and frequent habit, especially when accompanied by vivid sexual fantasies or, worse, the viewing of pornography, it can be damaging to sexual and emotional health. In essence, a young man may have hundreds of sexual experiences associated with unrealistic or overtly distorted imagery, reinforced with the extreme pleasure of sexual release. At the very least, when he marries, his real-life sexual partner may seem disappointing by comparison, and his physical and emotional bonding with her may be impaired. This problem will be more significant if there have been many actual sexual partners before the wedding night. At worst, he may come in contact with violent or degrading images and associate his own sexual release with them.

Your approach to this issue will need to be both tactful and realistic. A bottom line worth stressing is that masturbation should not play a major role in your child's life, either as a source of relentless guilt or as a frequent and persistent habit that displaces healthy sexual relations in the future. If it happens once in a while, it happens. But it should not be pursued as a form of recreation, especially while viewing sexually provocative material, and it should never be allowed to occur with other people.

heres another section of a different article from the same source:What's normal
Occasional self-stimulation
Curiosity and questions about sexuality
Questions about pregnancy and reproduction
Role playing
Masturbation at home or in other private places. In most cases, masturbation will not prove a significant issue in this stage. Parents will want to gently redirect their children if masturbation occurs in public, and otherwise simply monitor, to the best of their abilities, any increases or changes that would warrant intervention.
ps. this is a christian site, not catholic. which has some different believes from each other, but the same base beliefs

Nellerin
August 11th, 2012, 08:33 PM
Since it is Christian and more "accepting" that is probably why, but within all religions there are different levels of acceptance for stuff. Either way, what does it matter? Who cares what religious people say, if they say it is wrong then they are ignorant (not surprising.)

Rodeo
August 11th, 2012, 08:54 PM
Well I belive you are right it says that it is not only normal but ok. I personally have always belived it to be ok.

Cicero
August 11th, 2012, 09:04 PM
Well I belive you are right it says that it is not only normal but ok. I personally have always belived it to be ok.

so it does sound like its saying its ok, the article?

darkwoon
August 12th, 2012, 07:35 AM
so it does sound like its saying its ok, the article?
As I read it, it is not really ok to masturbate - if it happens "by accident", that's fine, but as they write themselves: it should not be pursued as a form of recreation, especially while viewing sexually provocative material.

Unless I'm mistaken, most guys do see masturbation as a "form of recreation", and not a mechanical habit for the sole purpose of relieving physical tension. I'm not sure the author had an overall positive idea of masturbation.

Therefore honor God with your body as they say in the Bible, yet you aren't supposed to use all its functions... I always found the position of those Christian fundamentalists hard to explain, but oh well.

ImCoolBeans
September 9th, 2012, 02:56 AM
OP request. :locked: