Hey newgeorge, I think this paragraph was well put, the rest of it was good as well but I thought that this was one of the best I have read about masturbation in a while. Thanks for writing all of that it was an interesting read.

God Bless

Blaze


Masturbation is surely the 'raw material' out of which loving relationships are formed. I am all too aware in my own life that it can also be a barrier to forming loving relationships if there is a personality 'problem' of any sort. 'It is not good for man to be alone.' Not because God doesn't like us masturbating but because He calls us to live with others, forming loving relationships and finding our own happiness in the happiness of others. It is no accident either that the more isolated we are as individuals the more often we need to masturbate. It's not the masturbating which is wrong, it is the separation of man from man and from man with woman. This is what God is calling us to: connection. It then stops becoming a personal problem and becomes a social one. If we prefer to stay at home and masturbate over pictures on the computer rather than head out and relate to others then we have a problem. The problem is not the masturbating it is the feeling that we have nothing to offer others. It is the feeling of exclusion and unworthiness.