Masturbating...........?!
Question: Masturbating!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!?
Is is something against the Bible!? And also I need some info on it!. ThnxWww@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
The only mention of it in the Bible is the story of Onan!.!.!.!. the guy whom God punished because he "spilled his seed on the ground"!.
Thing is, it wasn't masturbation that God didn't like: it was God's law and the custom of that place and time that if a man dies, his brother has to continue the dead man's family line by impregnating the widow if she's borne no children yet!.!.!. Onan refused to have sex with his dead brother's wife and masturbated instead!.
Onan's sin was refusing a social and religious obligation, and it had nothing to do with *how* he did that!.!.!. he'd have been punished the same way if he'd just moved out of town to stay away from the widow!.
(I started pretty late for a boy - in 1973 at age 13 - but that was more than a month after the first time I had sex!.)
EDIT: isn't it interesting that I get thumbed down for speaking a truth that biblical scholars have been saying for centuries!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
Thing is, it wasn't masturbation that God didn't like: it was God's law and the custom of that place and time that if a man dies, his brother has to continue the dead man's family line by impregnating the widow if she's borne no children yet!.!.!. Onan refused to have sex with his dead brother's wife and masturbated instead!.
Onan's sin was refusing a social and religious obligation, and it had nothing to do with *how* he did that!.!.!. he'd have been punished the same way if he'd just moved out of town to stay away from the widow!.
(I started pretty late for a boy - in 1973 at age 13 - but that was more than a month after the first time I had sex!.)
EDIT: isn't it interesting that I get thumbed down for speaking a truth that biblical scholars have been saying for centuries!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
It depends on who you ask!. Anyone can spin passages of the Bible to mean whatever they want, but to me, I would say no, the Bible says nothing for or against masturbation!.
Masturbation can start whenever you feel like it!. There is no wrong or right age, many people start when they hit puberty, others feel that it is wrong and never do it!. I can only tell you that you have to do what makes you feel good!. Life is too short to miss out on something that can be the most relaxing, stress relieving, and good feeling because someone once told me it was dirty!. And how can you truly love yourself, if you don't know yourself!? Also, masturbation is good practice for knowing what you do and don't like in bed, for later in life, when you decide to be sexually active!. You can be more dominant in bed with your partner and you can make sure you get what you want out of sex, rather then being worried about if you're doing it right or not!. Masturbation can give you confidence!.
Your best bet is not to listen to what others have to say, but decide what you want!. If you want to pleasure yourself, touch yourself, or use a sex toy in order to have an orgasm, then you should!. Www@Answer-Health@Com
Masturbation can start whenever you feel like it!. There is no wrong or right age, many people start when they hit puberty, others feel that it is wrong and never do it!. I can only tell you that you have to do what makes you feel good!. Life is too short to miss out on something that can be the most relaxing, stress relieving, and good feeling because someone once told me it was dirty!. And how can you truly love yourself, if you don't know yourself!? Also, masturbation is good practice for knowing what you do and don't like in bed, for later in life, when you decide to be sexually active!. You can be more dominant in bed with your partner and you can make sure you get what you want out of sex, rather then being worried about if you're doing it right or not!. Masturbation can give you confidence!.
Your best bet is not to listen to what others have to say, but decide what you want!. If you want to pleasure yourself, touch yourself, or use a sex toy in order to have an orgasm, then you should!. Www@Answer-Health@Com
According to the precepts of the Catholic church it can be a "serious sin" or it can be a "lesser sin"!. The criteria is if a person masturbates while entertaining thoughts of an adulterous nature ( or fornicating nature) then it is a serious sin because of the scripture that says, "If you even have lust in your heart, etc"!. But if a person can masturbate as simply a tension/stress relief without accompanying impure thoughts - then it is a "lesser sin" or possibly not even sinful at all!. The bottom line is what is in your heart/thoughts/desires!. Edit/added - the orientation of the thoughts/desires is important because it's said that sin originates in the thoughts and desires so that if a person "mentally commits adultery/fornication" the intent to sin is there and the only thing missing is the opportunity /other person!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I agree with Bathsheva, anything else I would say would only repeat her words!.
Masturbation is not a sin though!.
And as for what age I started!. I think I was 10, and back then I had no idea what I was doing or if there was even a name for it!. I think I thought that I had discovered this whole new thing that no one else had ever done before!. I was wrong though =)Www@Answer-Health@Com
Masturbation is not a sin though!.
And as for what age I started!. I think I was 10, and back then I had no idea what I was doing or if there was even a name for it!. I think I thought that I had discovered this whole new thing that no one else had ever done before!. I was wrong though =)Www@Answer-Health@Com
No! it's not against the bible! I'm christian and i started masturbating when i was 10 but i didn't even know it was called that!.Www@Answer-Health@Com