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==Masturbation and the law==
 
==Masturbation and the law==

Revision as of 18:55, 10 January 2009

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Masturbation, from the Latin manus (hand) and stuprare (soil, make dirty), is the act of gratifying oneself sexually, often while alone. It can also apply, as in "mutual masturbation", to more than one person gratifying each other, without resorting to direct genital to genital stimulation.

Masturbation is sometimes also aided by the use of sex toys, and/or pornography.

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Cultural attitudes

Different societies, cultures, and religions have taken varioust positions of the subject on masturbation. A few are given below.

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say about masturbation: "The most fun any one person can have whilst being totally alone".

Seventh Day Adventism

The founder of Seventh Day Adventism, Ellen White, had much to say on the subject of masturbation:

"Children who practice self-indulgence [masturbation] previous to puberty, or the period of merging into manhood or womanhood, must pay the penalty of nature's violated laws at that critical period. Many sink into an early grave, while others have sufficient force of constitution to pass this ordeal. If the practice is continued from the age of fifteen and upward, nature will protest against the abuse she has suffered, and continues to suffer, and will make them pay the penalty for the transgression of her laws, especially from the ages of thirty to forty-five, by numerous pains in the system, and various diseases, such as affection of the liver and lungs, neuralgia, rheumatism, affection of the spine, diseased kidneys, and cancerous humors. Some of nature's fine machinery gives way, leaving a heavier task for the remaining to perform, which disorders nature's fine arrangement, and there is often a sudden breaking down of the constitution; and death is the result." Solemn Appeal, 1870, p. 63

"Females possess less vital force than the other sex, and are deprived very much of the bracing, invigorating air, by their in-door life. The result of self-abuse in them is seen in various diseases, such as catarrh, dropsy, headache, loss of memory and sight, great weakness in the back and loins, affections of the spine, and frequently, inward decay of the head. Cancerous humor, which would lie dormant in the system their lifetime, is inflamed, and commences its eating, destructive work. The mind is often utterly ruined, and insanity supervenes." (A Solemn Appeal (Appeal to Mothers) pg.73)

"It is not the taxation of study alone that was doing the work of injury to your children, but that their own wrong habits were sapping the brain, and robbing the entire body of vital energy. The nervous system was becoming shattered by being often excited and thus laying the foundation for premature and certain decay. Self -abuse is killing thousands and tens of thousands." Manuscript Releases Volume Five pg. 396 (Letter to Dr. and Sister Lay, Feb. 13, 1870).

"The minds of some of these children are so weakened that they have but one half or one third of the brilliancy of intellect that they might have had, had they been virtuous and pure. They have thrown it away in self-abuse. Right here in this church, corruption is teeming on every hand." Testimonies for the Church volume Two pg. 361

Now if Ellen White didn’t masturbate there must have been some other reason why she was so silly.

Betty Dodson

Sex educator Betty Dodson, on the other hand, wrote Sex For One, an entire book on how to enjoy masturbation more. Most people who have studied the subject are more inclined to take her side.

Christianity

Divided. Some Christians oppose it, many don't, and, in fact, it is possible that some condone it as a means of controlling one's sex drive when needed. The Bible says nothing about masturbation, so positions that oppose it are likely based upon a rather shaky exegesis of various verses that could be construed as pertinent, although they are likely not so.

Effects

The effects of masturbation have been alleged to include:

Positive

  • Pleasure, often to the point of mild euphoria and enjoyable involuntary muscular contractions.
  • In males, lowered incidence of prostate cancer.

Negative

God does not approve of spilling your seed, because it violates the Bible commandment to be fruitful, and multiply

These have yet to be verified by the use of double-blind trials in accordance with the scientific method. (There are however said to be many eager college students prepared to be paid volunteers for a long-term study for the benefit of humankind.)

  • Causing hair to grow on the palms of one's hands.
  • Making you go blind.
  • Ye being struck down by the vengeful hand of God.
  • Neuralgia, rheumatism, affection of the spine, diseased kidneys, and cancerous humors.
  • Homosexuality
  • Drying up of the 'life fluids'
  • Catarrh, dropsy, headache, loss of memory and sight, great weakness in the back and loins, affections of the spine, and frequently, inward decay of the head.
  • Dead kittens.
  • Por speleing
  • Eternal damnation in the Lake of Fire
  • Increasing time spent in Purgatory
  • Sore wrists and forearm muscles (definitely some anecdotal evidence available)
  • Sticky computer monitors, if jacking off to internet porn.

Masturbation and the law

In Indonesia the penalty for masturbation is decapitation[1]

See also

Footnotes

  1. Times Online: The world's strangest laws
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