Masturbation is a Gift From Jehovah (Stupid Awake 11/06)

by metatron 50 Replies latest jw friends

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  Clam

  It will make you go blind. It will make your palms grow hairy. Such myths about masturbation are largely a thing of the past. But the latest research has even better news for young men: frequent self-pleasuring could protect against the most common kind of cancer.

  A team in Australia led by Graham Giles of The Cancer Council Victoria in Melbourne asked 1079 men with prostate cancer to fill in a questionnaire detailing their sexual habits, and compared their responses with those of 1259 healthy men of the same age. The team concludes that the more men ejaculate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to develop prostate cancer.
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  Stealth

  Next month in Awake; "Young People ask, what can I do about all of these wet dreams?"
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  dedpoet

  I haven't got much time for, or belief in, the bible, but I read it several times as a jw, and never saw any scriptural justification anywhere for the wts view on masturbation. I really don't know where they got it from, and I'd challenge any jw, including governing body members, to explain it. My guess would be it's just another rule they came up with to exert more control over their members, another guilt trip they can send them on

  . Maybe if they can shame the kids into believing they've offended jehovah every time they masturbate, it'll get them working harder in other ways, like book selling, to make up for this terrible sin they've committed.
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  under_believer

  I regret commenting on the sociobiological basis for rape. I admit that I was just parroting back politically correct things I had heard elsewhere. In reality, I am not well-informed enough to comment on the subject, and a cursory glance at the available material convinces me that while my assertion has a certain merit, it does not have universal consensus and that there are other theories that deserve consideration. Without accepting or denying alternate propositions (such as that that rape is always sexually motivated) I withdraw my assertion that it is never sexually motivated.
  
  Also--Bad Girl, the Society does not use Onan to justify their masturbation ban. Quite the opposite, in fact:
  

  *** g87 9/8 p. 19 How Serious Is Masturbation? ***
  
  God executed Onan for "wasting his semen on the earth." However, interrupted intercourse, not masturbation, was involved. Furthermore, the execution was because Onan selfishly failed to perform brother-in-law marriage in order to continue his deceased brother’s family line. (Genesis 38:1-10) The "emission of semen" mentioned at Leviticus 15:16-18 apparently refers, not to masturbation, but to a nocturnal emission as well as to marital sex relations.
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  Jerohobobonadad

  Next month in Awake; "Young People ask, what can I do about all of these wet dreams?"

  Answer: Invest in some heavy duty bed sheets.
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  valkyrie

  As for rape, it should be clear if you can understand my reasoning that if sexual desires could not be alleviated apart from intimate

  contact with another person, forcible sexual assault would be become endemic ( can you say "anomie") , domination or not.

  Following this line of reasoning - and that of WasAnElderOnce's instructor -

  - why do more sexually-frustrated women not commit rapes?

  - why do some [male] rapists deliberately target females who are past their prime [with respect to aspects of fertility and the biological 'reproductive' urge]

  - why are many rapists unable to 'perform' in consensual sexual situations, but are provoked to sexual excitement at the thought/prosprect of forced intercourse?

  - V
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  Peter123

  I've always looked at masturbation as sex with someone I love.
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  outoftheorg

  Valkyrie I don't believe that there is one and one only reason or urge or psychological reason that rapists will molest another person. Usually a female.

  The human mind is able to accomplish the most wonderful actions and the most horrible actions. I believe but cannot prove, that most rapes are a combination of sexual urges and anger or domination or maybe just common old insanity.

  I think that if a man had no sexual urges and physically attacked another man or woman, there is domination involved or rages due to insanity of some sort. An easier problem to solve.

  If a man has sexual urges and attacks another person there may or may not be urges of domination or some level of insanity. A problem not so easy to solve.

  What about the female molesting young males? I don't see much if any desire to dominate or rage.

  This is another issue where absolutism just will not work. An issue that cults and most religions still try to tell us they have the absolute truth and the fix for it all.

  Just my 3 cents.

  Outoftheorg
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  CatOnARoof

  <<<<Rape is NOT the satisfaction of a sexual urge. >>>>

  I agree with you Kundra...

  Now about masturbation... I could never quite understand how J.W.s proved thats wrong??? I can understand the no-sex-before-marriage part and respect it (even though I dont believe in it,) but does the Bible even mention masturbation? Can someone enlighten me, please?
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  Double Edge

  Can you tickle yourself?

  well, there is a place right behind my...... aw, never mind....