Was raised Presbyterian. Always felt sinful and dirty and guilty as a child when I would masturbate. Did it anyway. I don’t remember a time when I didn’t, and I don’t remember a time when I didn’t feel guilty about it, growing up.
These days? I’m 29 years old. I don’t honestly remember when I stopped feeling guilty. It’s been well over a decade.
These days it’s just a very pleasant way to relax. I don’t think twice.
Nobody ever told me as a child that it was immoral or wrong. Nobody ever mentioned it. Nobody ever caught me doing it. I just remember instinctively thinking that of course it was wrong, and that I shouldn’t be doing it.
Who knows where I got that idea? I wish somebody could tell me.
Now I feel kinda sorry for my girlfriends, some of whom never masturbated til years after they lost their virginity. It’s far easier, from what I gather, to enjoy sex if you already know what you’re aiming for.
I always knew what I was aiming for. I dunno why I felt such guilt at an early age. I dunno why I stopped feeling guilty. You could say I grew up, or you could say I “lost my religion,” or any number of things.
He just wants to point and laugh at all the dopers talking about whacking off. He’ll come back in a month and go, “am I a bad person for eating a whole bag of Doritos while sitting at my computer.”
Not only is it not immoral, the meddling prudes who argue that it is and try to make people feel guilty about doing it are engaging in an enormously immoral act themselves.
For the record Trunk, I don’t have a membership here because I’m a teenager with no way to get a membership. Sorry for wanting to ask a question that other people seem to have no problem answering, if you got a problem with it, then go somewhere else.
Those that consider it immoral, please, for which animals is it immoral? Only for humans? For humans and primates? For all social animals? For absolutely all animals? How about animals that fertilize their mates without intercourse, like male fish who ejaculate into the water near the female?
What kind of god would give people access to something pleasurable and completely harmless and then declare it immoral? I’m an atheist, but I didn’t buy that concept even when I was a believer. Sorry, but if you aren’t hurting yourself or anyone else, it’s not a sin.
I was raised Presbyterian (a rather stuffy, boring kind of Protestant.) Now, I’m sort of halfway between Taoist and Presbyterian.
No, it is not immoral to come unscrewed. Onan’s great sin was not masturbation. God, having an out-of-character day, told Onan to commit adultery and make a bastard child with his sister-in-law. Onan disobeyed God, which pissed Him off. If Onan had simply refused to boff his SIL, and hadn’t spilled his seed, the sin would have been the same.
However, Mordwynd, don’t get your hopes up. You won’t change your friend’s mind. She came to her conclusion by faith. No amount of logic will defeat a position that was not reached by logic. Sorry. She believes that the only good use for her goodies is chugging out babies for the next Crusade, and you can’t change that. Years later, when 5 little kids drive her stark raving nuts, she may begin to question her teachings. Alas, too late.
