“Pastor, I am a girl of 18 years old, and I do masturbate myself. I want to know; is it bad?” The purpose of this chapter is not to establish if masturbation is sinful or not, rather to explain why masturbation can be detrimental to our spiritual life and to encourage people to abandon the practice of it particularly Christians. Masturbation is the self-stimulation of the sex organs and other erogenous body parts for the purpose of pleasure, usually leading to or targeting org.asm. Simply put, it is having solo sex by touching yourself. Many people masturbate, and it has been described as the only form of sex with sexual zero risk physically but not spiritually. Granted, masturbation may bring temporary pleasure, but it often comes with the long term cost of addiction and other sexual problems. In the consideration that many people reading this book may not be Christians, I have created a separate section for the spiritually based points. If you are a Christian, I encourage you to take a moment to ask God to show you the truth concerning masturbation. …show more content…
1. Masturbation is addictive! I challenged anyone who is already into it that doubts masturbation is addictive to see how many weeks or months they can go without masturbating. We know now that sexual addictions are in fact self-induced addictions just as drugs. The chemicals our bodies release during sexual arousal create the same effect on the brain as