masturbation (pleasuring one's self)? is it against the Catholic religion?

Answer 1

Yes, I am a practicing Roman Catholic so i know, it is a sin in our religion, any acts of sexual pleasure outside of marriage are a sin. Even when married, you may have sex ..but masturbation is still a sin if you're just like...sitting alone and just start whackin off lol.

Answer 2

The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches:

2396 Among the sins gravely contrary to chastity are masturbation, fornication, pornography, and homosexual practices.

2352 By masturbation is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure. "Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action." "The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose." For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of "the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved."
To form an equitable judgment about the subjects' moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety or other psychological or social factors that lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability.

Answer 3

I believe that it is against the Roman Catholic religion.

Not totally sure though.

Just go to confession!