What does the bible say about masturbation? (serious answers please)?

Answer 1

It says its ok as long as youre thinking about Jesus while you do it.

Answer 2

First, Jesus taught that to lust in one's heart is a sin itself, so if this type of thinking is going on while one is masturbating, then one is sinning in one's mind.

Second, Onan's sin in Gen 38:7-10 has been the most misapplied passage related to masturbation. Onan was required to marry and impregnate his brother's widow. Since the child would be considered his brother's (custom of that society), he pulled out and spilled his "seed" on the ground. The sin was actually disobeying his father and dishonoring his brother's widow. When people applied this to all masturbation in any context, it went far beyond anything the text actually said. This sin was called "onanism" for a few centuries following the Reformation.

Third, some even used Lev 15:16-17 as a general prohibition of masturbation. The passage only says that any spillage of sexual fluids made anything that came into contact with them ceremonially unclean until the evening. Not everything that was ceremonially unclean came into existence as the result of a sin (e.g. blood).

My conclusion is that if one's thoughts are pure (say, a husband thinking about his wife), then there is nothing sinful about the act. The two Old Testament passages mentioned above shouldn't be used as general prohibitions against masturbation, but they have.

Answer 3

Someone told me once that the "Old Testament" says "it is better to plant your seed in the belly of a whore than behind a tree. Actually I've never ran across that while reading the Bible. However, it's a natural thing for boys reaching the age of puberty to discharge the seminal fluids built up in their bodies. As a matter of FACT, so called 'wet dreams' are the body's natural way to discharge seminal fluids when the fluids are so plentiful they have to discharge in some way. Makes sense to me, how about you?

Answer 4

I don't know if I can add to what's already been said. Especially since I haven't read everything that everybody else said, but, here goes ...

Jesus said that if a man looks upon a woman with lust, then he is already guilty of adultery in his heart.

However, immediately after this, he said that if your eye offends you, pluck it out, etc.

THEN he added that if your right hand offends you, cut it off, etc.

What does lusting, looking, and using your hand have to do with each other? Well, isn't that what this question is all about?

Jesus said that it would be better to go into heaven maimed or blind, then to go into hell whole.

Answer 5

---It doesn't address it specifically really. However, most of the time when doing it, people are thinking about someone they should not be, and the Bible says that whoever looks at another woman lustfully commits adultery with her in his heart.
---I think that any time we intentionally arouse ourselves outside of marriage, that is disgusting to him. Sexual pleasure was meant for marriage. It was meant for love. Arousing oneself outside of that is like an animal that cares nothing for love. We were meant to live spiritually, not always giving into the dirty desires our body has.
---I know someone who had problems with this sin. In fact, he could not stop, no matter how hard he tried. Then one night, when he confessed his sin to some Christian friends, he was free from and able to stop from that point on.

Answer 6

In this chapter on man and woman and their relationship (and sexuality) it is written this:
1Co 7:4 The wife does not have authority of her own body, but the husband. And likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.
1Co 7:5 Do not deprive one another, unless by agreement for a time, that you may be free for fasting and prayer. And come together again on the same place, that Satan may not tempt you through your incontinence.

Authority means power, ownership, and since it is in a context of sexuality it means man can not touch himself, neither can woman, herself.

Answer 7

the Bible dose not speak to beat'n the meat or to choking the chicken specificaly... you are free to do so if you like... But it can be concidered under the do not lust injunction... So do it with out lusting... You do know there are two kinds of liers do'nt you...them that say they never.... and them that say they quit.


ps: the same goes for flicking the bean ladies.

Answer 8

it doesn't say anything about it, Onan's sin was that he didn't fulfill he duty to his sister-in-law. not that he spilled his seed.
as for the lustfill thoughts. the verse that people use against sexual thoughts was actually talking about coveting your neighbors wife, so as long as she isn't married and you aren't married then you can pretty much think about her as sexually as you want. if you want to be real conservative though the verse could be interpreted to mean that you cant even lust after your own wife, but that doesn't fit logically with what Jesus was talking about

Answer 9

I saw a tv program about that.
masterbation is not mentioned
sex was not seen as bad

that is the opinion of current christian leaders.

Answer 10

I don't think God minds unless you are imagining someone doing it to you, because that is lusting after them and you are supposed to be pure in your thoughts. But if you can do it without bringing someone else's body into it, I don't see how God would care.

Answer 11

I don't think it talks about it directly. But it does talk about not giving into lust. Which the two pretty much go hand in hand (no pun intended)