Is masturbation a sin?

Question

A lot of medical experts says that it relieves stress and prevents prostate cancer, but some people say its a sin.

Answer 1

yes it is and if you do it it will fall off and lot of bad tuff will happen to you!

no its not! i do it all the time

Answer 2

Yes.

Judeo-Christian tradition has taught for thousands of years:
1. Single people should be celibate.
2. Married people should be faithful to each other (adultery is wrong).

The Catholic Church recognizes the power of sex when it teaches, "Sexuality affects all aspects of the human person in the unity of his body and soul."

Chastity means the successful integration of sexuality within the person. A chaste person's body and spirit lives in unity and opposes any behavior that would impair that unity.

Masturbation is contrary to the human dignity of the person and anyone about whom the person has lustful thoughts, and the dignity of human sexuality.

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

There are Laws and morals but I do not accept the concept of sin as I do not believe in the fairy story that is God.

Answer 5

I think God will understand. If you have a relationship w/him he will let you know the things that are not right. I don't know if it is in the Bible as a sin, at least in the NT. Relax.

Answer 6

personally no its not a sin. I think its a great healthy normal sexual outlet. I would encourage you to do it while you are not getting the real thing

Answer 7

I would say a bigger sin is having sex with random people so go ahead and masterbate

Answer 8

MASTURBATION MYTHS:
from http://www.jackinworld.com/library/myths.html

Chances are, of all the things you've heard about masturbation, most of them were absolutely false. For some reason, misinformation surrounds masturbation like virtually no other topic. How do you spot a masturbation myth? One simple method is to ask yourself if the statement is also true of sexual intercourse. When you're masturbating, your body only knows it's getting sexually stimulated; it doesn't know by what means. So, for instance, if the question is whether or not masturbation causes acne, think of it this way: If it did, intercourse would also cause acne. In fact, neither masturbation nor intercourse cause acne.

MYTH:
Masturbation causes hair to grow on your palms.
FACT:
How many people with hair on their palms have you seen?
MYTH:
Masturbation causes hair loss, chronic fatigue, and other problems.
FACT:
Internet scam artists have tried to invent a concept called "overmasturbation," insisting that you have to buy their expensive herbal pills in order to counteract the effect of masturbating more than a couple of times per week. But the pills have absolutely no effect — and masturbating once or twice a day will not make your hair fall out, or cause anything else they claim.
MYTH:
Masturbation is bad for your eyesight.
FACT:
Masturbation does not affect eyesight. This myth probably originated because boys often start having to wear glasses at about the same age they start masturbating.
MYTH:
Masturbation causes your penis to stop growing (or) to get bigger.
FACT:
Masturbation has no effect on penis size whatsoever.
MYTH:
Masturbation causes your testicles to shrink.
FACT:
Absolutely false! It is true that if you're highly aroused, your testicles become engorged with blood and may appear slightly larger and heavier, and that masturbating will make them revert to normal. But they will absolutely not be any smaller than after the last time you masturbated.
MYTH:
Masturbation causes acne.
FACT:
It doesn't cause acne. Like the eyesight myth, this is a case of two things that happen at the same time, even though one doesn't cause the other.
MYTH:
Masturbation causes sexually transmitted diseases.
FACT:
Hello? "Sexually transmitted" means from one person to another. You can't give yourself a sexually transmitted disease!
MYTH:
If you masturbate too much, you'll run out of semen and become sterile.
FACT:
Semen is a fully renewable resource. When you ejaculate semen, your body simply makes more — the same way your body makes more saliva after you spit.
MYTH:
People can tell whether you masturbate by how your penis looks.
FACT:
Masturbation does not change the appearance of your penis. (It does tend to cause an erection, but that usually goes away when you're finished.)
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Masturbation Frequency:
http://www.jackinworld.com/misc/faqtree1.html#mastfreq

How often does the average male masturbate?
It depends on a lot of factors, the most important being age. For an 18-year-old male, a rough average is once a day or so. This is slightly higher for younger teenagers — maybe 10 or 12 times a week, and slightly lower for older people. You might be surprised by how often adult men masturbate — even happily married men.

I think I'm addicted to masturbation. Is that possible?
It is, although many, many people think they're addicted when they're really just doing what comes naturally. For more on this topic, read the article Is Masturbation Addictive?(http://www.jackinworld.com/library/articles/addict.html).

How can I masturbate less often, or quit altogether?
It's tough; it takes a lot of will power. It can be done, especially if you're driven by very strong religious feelings. However, JackinWorld's position is that it's not worth it. We think you should enjoy the harmless pleasures your body can provide.


Connection between ejaculation frequency and prostate health
http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/4961.html

QUESTION:
I have been coming across articles on the connection between masturbation, ejaculation, and overall health. I was very surprised about this article from the Cancer Council Victoria in Australia . It was a study that confirmed that ejaculation frequency is important for a healthy prostate. The protective effect was most significant in men in their twenties who ejaculated on average 7 or more times per week. It compared this against same-age men who ejaculated less than 3 times per week. I made a New Year's resolution to pay attention to my body and to ejaculate at least once a day. I feel much better for it and my penis strength and sexual urge has increased immensely. I feel balanced. After a year, I can't imagine going back to my old repressed frequency and probably couldn?t keep from cumming for a whole day if I tried now. Why aren?t people made aware of this need? After getting used to daily +, I often have the urge to do it even more, but hold back. Are there any physical problems with over ejaculating?

ANSWER:
What a fabulous New Year’s resolution to pay attention to your body! Your efforts are worth applauding, as being in tune with yourself and your new masturbation schedule seems to have paid off, as you note that you feel “balanced” and “much better for it.” Happily, no physical problems are associated with over-ejaculating, so don’t worry about giving in to the natural urge to enjoy and pleasure yourself more often. You clearly have a strong awareness of the positive effects of masturbation on your body, so go ahead and experiment with masturbation frequency – in this way, you can determine what frequency feels best for you and your regular routine.

You also ask why people aren’t made aware of the “need” to masturbate often. Good question – especially in light of the study’s findings that frequent ejaculation helps reduce the risk of prostate cancer. Unfortunately, self-stimulation – as with most sexual acts – is often viewed as shameful, dirty, immoral, and all sorts of other negative adjectives. Wouldn’t it be great if masturbation could be seen as the healthy, enjoyable, and beneficial activity it really is, openly talked about and (gasp!) endorsed? Perhaps one day it will be – with more people like you who are open-minded and bold enough to talk about it in a positive light.

Enjoy – and pass that article along to friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, and anybody and everybody else!

Answer 9

I want to answer you fully. I do not have time. You can see my many answers to this issue.

There are many things to consider in answering that question.

Please email me seprately if you are a young perosn struggling with this issue. Please stay a virgin what ever else you do. God has created a wife for you. ONe person and one perosn only who God would like for oyu to have as a life long sex partner. He wants that becasue it helps his to keep disease from being quickly spread amongst humans.

God loves you and wants your sexual experience to be one where you feel close to him and let him know how grateful you are to be able to enjoy it.

Often sex and especially masturbation become a wya to feel seperated fomr God as though you are doing som ething wrong. Then too there are tohose who want ot do what they know is wrong and they use the idea that anyone who says one should be conservative and casutiios how they approach their sexual life is just doing harm.

There is a balance.

Not all guys masturbate. Some never do. Or at least on the net over the years many have ( after we are really going back and forth and speakling about hteir sexuality) many reveal they never did it and just said they did becaeu it seemed everyone else did and they didn't wnat to think of themselves as odd or unussual.

God does not want you to go around in utter shame if you masturbated once. God does not want you to become some crazy person who masturbates ten times a day and develops strong anti social behavior that wrecks your life or causes you to harm some one else.

Most persons ( in our culture anyway ) are ashamed that they masturbate.

God mad eone perosn top be your wife. If you do masturbate ( and I recommend that you not masturbate or do it as seldom as possible and when you do fantacize about how much God loves you and tell God out loud how much you appreciate the fact hatt you can have such a great expeience. THatn him for creating you and thank him for helping you to learn to get it under your control.

Sex is wonderful but we live in a society that wants us to contorl it rather than have it control us. SO sex is really only wonderful when it is something you do wiht hte love of your life.

Your sex organ does not belong to you. It belongs to the person GOdmade for you to be your spouse. And theirs belings to you. that is what true sexual love within a GOd inspired relationship is about. Even most aithiests when they really go at it with their partners are heard to cry out " Oh. God!" It shows a human tnedency to recognize God and how kind a feeling he has allowed us to have when we have an orgasm. SO rather than say it in derision of GOd why not say it with sincerity and to praise GOd for he is the one who made it possible for you to experience that feeling.
Then too recognize that God knows that disease is spread through sex. HTat the Devil is busy trying to ruin you and your life. And that becaue of this God has asked us ( the ones he loves) to be careful and to protect our selves an teh children not yet born to us and their children also. By practicing abstinence ( no sex until you are married and monogamy only one sex partner ( your spouse ) for life you can help protect your progeny.

Then be busy preparing yourself to be the best husban or wife to the very specila perosn God has created for you. Realize that by doing that you are showing God thast you beleive he is real and that he really loves you. You are showing God that you beleive he has a peronal interest in you and your life. That is encouraging and up lifting. THen respect the ideas that are hteri to help us have sex with one person ( our mate) after we marry them.

This is the best way. the best sex for a life time the most enjoyable and satisfying is repeatedly reported in surveys to be that which is had between partners who never had sex till they were married and then only with each other.

Masturbation can cause you to learn poor habits about life. Or if you are prone to behavioral problems which most teens are masturbation can harm you r life emotionally and physically. Too much masturbation or any sort of sex that casues you to ejaculate will drain you of zinc and that harms your health.
see my many other answers to similar questions.
I had not meant ot go this long here.
Emai me and let me "councel you" if you are having the struggle that many guys have between feeling the urge to masturbate and also sort of not wantiong to do it. Perhaps in a few back and forths we can help you to have better self esteme and to be doing what it is that you want to do.
please email me directly fomir your email to minne not in this yahoo forum. It does not allow me to know what I have sent you and it limits the words I can send you.

Masturbation can be a sin.
It is best no to masturbate and to masturbate as little as you can manage if you find your self driven to masturbate.
Then there are different types of gUys with all sorts of a variety of sexual natrures and that comes into play.
If you want the best sex life for 80 years the best things to do is not masturbate until you have had aat leasat two wet dreams. That allows your body to get you strated rather than russing it.
Also the brain needs to have grown to a certain size (it does not happen until after you hit pubetrty) in order for the physiological things that should happen when you have your first ejactulation to be able to happen. When you wait it allows this to be set right. It allows you to build up a reservior of semen and it allows lots of other things to happen.

Pay attention to what you fanticize about when you masturbate and be in charge of your sexual fantasyies instead of having them in charge of you.

DO not use pornoigraphy to masturbate. YOu are lookiong t osm eon elses wife. God made that perosn to be the wife of some other guy. She is miss using the gift of sex. If she is pretty or beautifu God made her so and he made her so for a person ( a man ) who god loves and wantss to bless with that perosn and that body. So is it the other way around. Don;t look at naked guys. That woudl have you ending up being sure Godmade you a homosexual when he might not have done that at all.

Then you will be confused and insist that Godmade you a homosexual when God never made anyone a Homosexual nor did God make anyone to be blind or have a bent penis or have anything else dramatically different in their life than he made any one elses.
These things are all the result of the sin of Adam. They are problems that we have becaue our first ancestor Adam when God said to him trust in me and rely on me for every thing and do not go to Satan, God's enemy for anything you need or want Adam did not belevie GOd really loved him so much. Adam and His wife ( the one God made especially for him just as God has made one especially for you )heard the Devils lies and believed them. and when they did the relationship , the fellowship they had with God became broken on that day. IN fact all of the creatino every thing that had been created by God became broken on that day. THings died which had never happened before that day. God was the tree of Life in the middle of that garden and Adam and eve ate fro it and gained spiritual nutrition from it and form being close to God and playing in Gods presence. God saw them naked physically and said it was Good. God saw them having sex and enjoying it and thanking God for it and God said it was good.

It was not a dirty evil sex as we have tried to make sex today it was a wonderful and glorious activity that helped them each feel safe and secure and well provided for and it was nuturing and encouraging.

SO do not let you r mind wander and think of such things as evil but instead praise GOd and love him and worship him and do it as much when and if you masturbate as you do when you do not masturbate and God will help you to realize if it is a thing you should do or not. DO not look at pictures of naked women ever and donot look at them to masturbate. INstead beleive GOd really loves you and ask him to help you grow and prepare yourslef to be an adult able to provide and comfort and love your wife in a wonderful way so she will have reason ( when God brings you together) to praise nd thatnk God for having given her such a wonderful husband who is just right for her. And you will then be able to say the same things abotu her because if you have and show faith that you believe God lioves you in that way GOd will honor that.

Ther eare eunuchs. Those are perosn who have little or no interest in sex. If they were not pursuaded by other human beings that theer is somethign wrong wiht them and they must be gay or lesbian becaeu they have no interest in sex with the opposite sex then many of them woudl live their life without ever masturbatino g or thinking a sexual thought. They woudl serve GOd and other human beings well and in the eternity get some sort of recognitio or blessing for it.

Many who think they are Gay,Lesbian ,Alternative, Same gender wrong gender etcetera are perons who life and the fall of mankind has disturbed them form havin the most common male female or eunuch life paths. If they had not lived in a societyu that makes such a big deal about sex they might not be sexually active persons. If they lived in a society that loved and served GOd rather in one that pretends it has an interest in God while it hardly does there life would be different.
We are all born in sin. It is not our fault. I was born a thief. It is ingrained in me to steal. How about you? I find I am dishonest and a liar. How about you?
Anyone who says they do not lie is lying when they say it.
Anyone who says they donot steal is lying and self righteous and no religion on earth allows the self righteous to gain the ultimate blessings of that religion and yet in most of them the leaders are self-righteous and haughty and pretending along wiht all of their followers that they are not.

No self -righteous perons shall get into heaven in Christianity.

I am a sinner. At age ten or eleven I reed the BIble once through it took a few weeks in the evenings and on week ends to do.. When I was done I said to myself this is a remarkable book. It had a lot of crazy stories in it and in many places when I read it it made no sense to me. Then I decided since it was such an important book in the world and especially inour western society having even our calendar based on one of its characters Jesus. I decided I had better read it agian and having read it and seen that the heroes inthat book all seamed ot aks things of God and God gave responses. I decided I woudl not only read the bible but also say a prayer to this GOd who I really didinot know if THat God even existed or was just dreamed up by humans. Any way it was clear that if there was a God and if that Book revealed him in any way to any person that the person had to speak out loud and say GOd if you are real reveal yourslef to me. Help me not to be led astray fomr the truth. Is there a truth God? If you are real and you have any truth I ask you to have mercy on me and compassion and to allow me to understand that truth.
So I read the bible again and this second tim ethrough I said that prayer as I read it. God if ytou are real help me to understnad what I am reading. If there is some partially hidden truth here show me what it is. I am trusting and relying on you to do that GOd. And when I read it through and Got to the Gospel according to Saint John the first chapter and the first verse and started to read it I started to have revelations from this GOd who I was not sure even existed. BUt now He was commmunicating wiht me. Ideas flooded my mind and I began to have an understanding of God and hios truth as I had been asking fo rthe past few weeks as I had re read that bible.

It was almost as if I had a tutor in my mind who was helping me to study it on my own. It was encouraging and filled me with joy and pleasaure. It was wonderful. I was what i came later to understand is called "Saved" and I was baptised in the HOly Spirit where he flooded ( with my permission ) my consiousness and helpped me to praise GOd and JEsus in ways greater than I was able to do just on my own. I didi not know this experience I had was called being filled with the hOly Spirit unitil later in my life. Yet I rememebre the experience as if it was yesterday though it haas been years ) and the experience i have found is universal. Any person who akss GOd to show them the turh and sincerely asks that repeatedly GOd will show them and what he will show them is the same exact thing he showed evereyone else who did that same asking. It helps to read the Bible. while you read ask GOd to save you and teach you his truth.
You will learn about God's messiah and that the BIble is abook about God's messiah. The whole book is about that.

When Jesus died on the cross he did it to free us fomr the guilt of Sin. Sin says that if you do it you then will be seperated fomr the love of God and God's peace that humans can get only through GOd's messiah.
Many of us believe Jesus is that Messiah. Those of
us who do get somethign called JOy and we all get it if we appraoch this subject the same way and sincerely. that means it is scientifically verifyable. If eceryone who does some thing gets the same results in science then it is called a scientific law. Well every one who asks God to save them will find out that Jesus is the MEssiah ( if they are open to the truth) and they wil end up being saved ( knowing for sure all their sins past present and future have been forgiven and that they will go to heaven. NOt because they have figured out how on their own to live or be right and righteous but becaeu they have come to realize they are a sinner who neds to be forgiven even though they are such a terrible sinner they do not deserve to be forgiven.

GOd wants to have a relatinoship with you that is not too much different ( on a spiritual level) than what reall sex between a husband and wife is like. God really does. Jesus speaks of his followers ad his Bride and himself as a bride groom.

God really lovces oyu very much whoever you are that is reading this. GOd wants to have a meaningful personal relationshiop with you where you depend on him for everything and recieve every blessing and good thing that GOd can bestow on you.

In order for that to happen you must admit you are a sinner who needs GOds help. YOu must also realize that in this messiah that God providedd and only in this messiah will you find relief for what bothers you troubles you or casues you to act out on sinful desires.

Then when you realize that and admit it to your self then you can say
Dear GOd I am a sinner and i need help. I desperately need help. I realize that Jesus was a sinles man who died on the cross to pay for my sin and the isn of the entire world. Thatn you GOd for having him die for me. THank you Jesus for dying for me to pay for my sins so that I owuld not have to pay for my own sins. Forgive me for my sins and forgive me for my isnfulness. Help me to realize I am forgiven Become my savior today. Fill me also with your holy Spirit and help ne to have wonderful happy tearfilled experience where my being is flooded with your light an love and encouragement. BE my Savior and teahc me how to live with oyu as my friend and the one who saved me. Amen.

God I masturbate. And i do not know if it is wrong or if it is O.K. to do. Help me to know. Help me not to do it if you do not want me to do it. HElp me to appraoch it the correct way so that if I do it or not do it that I draw close to you and have a happy joy filled healthy and safe life. You do not have a bad life for me you have a great life. Help me to do the things that willhelp me to enjoy that great life to the fullest.

I will believe that you created me and that you created sex. I thank you for creating such a wonderful exciting experience as what hapens when sperm and semen come out of my penis. YOu made it. You made it work. I do not want to use my sexual experience to glorify Satan or Sin. I want to use it to bring you Glory God nad to bring Glory to this Jeus who was so kind to die form me so I can have peace in my life and happiness and joy an dbe certain that when I die I can go to heaven and live forvever forgiven of all sin and so happy it knocks my socks off.

You are a wonderful GOd. I like you GOd. Thank you for likeing me.

I do not want to put my penis in anyone elses vagina but the one of the person you made to be my wife. I want that to be what I want. If I have been wanting something else. Help me to change so that this is what I want. LEt me think that doing anything else woudl be so disgusting that I would be repelled fomr doing it. Help me to accomplish that desire of my heart. Oh, GOd my Savior. In the name of GOd Saves I pray Amen. and Amen.

I hope this helps you. I invite you to email me and ask me any questions you have.
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If masturbation is a sin God has a way for you tobe forgiven for any ast masturbation. If it is not then God has a way for you to be forgiven for whatever else you do that is a sin.

Jese said that if you even look at another female ( other than your wife) and think to do something sexual with that person or even get slightly motivated to think of sex becasue you looked at her that in your mind you have al ready committed adultry. Adultery is having sexual intercourse with someone els's wife. IF you are married and have sex with some one else besides your mate you aree an adulterer and so are they. When two person have sex who are single something God does not want or destire for anyone to do) then you are fornicating.

I need to say more about this but am running out of time now. Please email me.

this is really the most important thing. to come to an understanding of salvation. And to get your sex under your control so you do not get diseases or get mental turmoil from it.
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God save you and bless you I ask. Amen.