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Most powerfully, Willingham claims that masturbation cultivates poor emotional management.
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That isn’t good because then my motor is riding the red line, and then the mind gets difficult to control, and I drop back into sin. It’s sometimes so demoralizing that I’ll stop. I have to tell you, however, that it really takes a long time without visual stimulation or fantasizing – even if I’m trying to get it over quick. In “Every Young Man’s Battle,” Stephen Arterburn quotes David, a 17-year-old, who said: Let me say this: it is possible to masturbate with a clean mind and eyes, because I’ve done it. Our motives may begin innocently, perhaps trying not to lust or imagine a person or scene, but sexual stimulation can cloud our minds and make it very easy to pop in an old mental video or fantasy that is far from pure. Masturbation also has a way of opening the door to more sexual immorality. Some may worry what may happen were we to not masturbate, given the production of sperm in the male body, but God designed nocturnal emissions as a natural release when we are unable to engage in sexual activity. Masturbation skews our view of sex into being about our pleasure and a quick fix rather than the focus being on giving and intimacy in a committed marriage relationship. Masturbation seems to fall short of this design, and in the act and the residual guilt, it does the opposite.
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It’s a shared experience that ideally brings us out of ourselves and into the mind/soul of another. Willingham says that masturbation violates biblical sexuality because when the Bible speaks of sex, it speaks of a union between a man and woman. Perhaps the most concise apologetic for “why” is found in Russell Willingham’s book “Breaking Free.” Here are a few of his reasons: He certainly brings up an interesting nuance, which I would probably ponder if it didn’t bring to my mind images of my professor that, frankly, make me never want to have sex again.Īs much as we find these exceptions quite rational, even appealing, we would still say that masturbation falls short of God’s design for us sexually and is, therefore, something we should avoid. I had a seminary professor who mentioned that when he traveled extensively, he didn’t feel it was a sin when he masturbated thinking about his wife. But I don’t think I’m alone, especially if you’ve had a sexually active past. Well, perhaps I’m just not gifted in this area, but I found it quite impossible. He would challenge us to try masturbating without lust. We’re not saying that the issue isn’t important for us, or to God, but that our consciences are out of alignment with the truth of Scripture on the magnitude of this sin.Ī godly man who taught me as a young Christian used to say to our men’s small group Bible study that while the Bible doesn’t mention masturbation, it clearly states that lust is a sin. Let’s take comfort and encouragement where it can be found, and there’s a good bit of it in Scripture’s silence on the topic. I honestly wish I felt as bad about, say, lying, envy or murder. But first, let’s not miss an application that’s as glaringly obvious as it is comforting: the weight biblically assigned to this sin is drastically out of proportion with the swelling of shame and self-loathing we experience when we masturbate. We’ll look at both of those perspectives in a moment.