Is masturbation a sin?

[bLuRbEnG]

Man sin sin lor... Haha since everyone is a sinner wat...

[ACJCian]

hmm. I'm Catholic myself, and I've been taught that masturbating is a sin. When I speak to my Catholic friends, most of them do it anyway, or worst, indulge in pre-marital sex. Which from catholic perspective is a no-no.
I believe that sin is defined by the self; in other words if its not against your conscience, it is not a sin. I think for too long has the term 'sin' been taken and been spun around by men. Just my two cents worth.

[sickman22]

Others think rather about that those people who declared sensuality as a sin, spend their time rather with burning and torturing innocent men and women, lead several crusades where they massacred every man, women and child they came across, and finally supressed most of the native cultures in the new worlds.

So tell me now, who's realy the sinner?

Rgds,
Sickman

RE: Life is never too short to F__K around!

[DOM1]

Dear All,
To a Buddhist, masturbation is a sexual misconduct. It's sex with the wrong part of a body (even with your own hands!). Masturbation, when commited, will break the laymen vows (one of the five). When viewed from a Buddhist, masturbation is not a sin since this "sin" thingy is linked to the "creator god" concept of Christianity, etc. However, breaking of the five lay vows is a BIG thing!!!

[nakamara]

I think that if u pcc thinking of your own wife then its not a sin cannot fantasize bout other women...haha

[CKee]

Originally Posted by ACJCian

hmm. I'm Catholic myself, and I've been taught that masturbating is a sin. When I speak to my Catholic friends, most of them do it anyway, or worst, indulge in pre-marital sex. Which from catholic perspective is a no-no.
I believe that sin is defined by the self; in other words if its not against your conscience, it is not a sin. I think for too long has the term 'sin' been taken and been spun around by men. Just my two cents worth.

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From a purely Biblical perspective, the moment one has lustful thoughts, sin is already committed (in the form of adultery) <me sees no need to quote Biblical verses here>. So never mind pcc as you need to fantasize in order to cum, right??

One bro mentioned about smoking not being a sin. Again, the human body is God's temple so smoking is harmful to His temple. Just some of my thoughts....

Some of my friends are staunch believers, i.e. practioners of God's word (the Bible), I also beh tahan...

[xxpp_z]

Well I once read on webbie said that porn movies actually reduced Jap rap cases. I think masturbate is the similar la. It release your desire and cool u down, so u don't go and do stupid thing. DOn't over do it...

[Peter_North]

If you don't masturbate regularly, it's likely that you will sin more often. The urge to have sex when one reaches adolescence is natural. Masturbation helps to relieve that urge and restore your hormone balance. If you think masturbation is sinful and try every means to suppress your urge, it can only can worse and distract you. You will start fantasizing having sex with girls etc. That's where all hell break loose, bringing on more sins.

The situation today is different from 2000 years ago. It's easier for the people during those times in bible to refrain from masturbating and having sexual fantasy. For one thing, the men married early so there would not be a need to masturbate. The women during those times would dress like our Afghan women, covered from head to toes. How to fantasize ?

The situation in our society today is completely different. Tank tops, halter necks, tight spandex blouse, micro-minis, black pantyhose, 5-inch heels etc. The scale of the temptation is different compared to the old days.

It depends on what answer you want. If you ask the pcc-ers and cheongsters out here, of course its not a sin. But if you go to other fundamentalist christian forums to ask then its a sin.

[jackylee]

when u reached nirvana. u almost same like god already, onli difference he have the power u dont.

when u reached nirvana, you do not need anything nor scared of anything. cause to you, you live for the sake of living only.

theres a white and black side of force. white refers to the good doings etc..dark of cos is the bad.

nirvana falls in the somewhere between, the grey side. its a side without hatred, anger or desires. u do not need good food, sex or release. cuz ur mind holds total control over your body, the determination is so strong that you do not need to do anything.. no desires at all.

afterall, in this world, it is desires that give u pain. we wanted love, so we find gf,which we got hurt in the end. we wanted sex, so we have extra premarital affair etc etc..

lets reach nirvana together

[hothandlebar]

Originally Posted by jungle boy

hijack abit here, i know christians frown upon smoking, but catholics smoke after mass in the church compounds. the bible doesn't explicitely state that smoking is a sin, so how ah?

bible got say anything about masturbation or not?

remember the saying of - " Your body is the temple of your soul... "? When you go to a temple, do you see smoke emitting from the incense? Guess it's fine to have smoke coming out from your body then!

[hothandlebar]

Originally Posted by sickman22

...is masturbation a sin?
RE: Life is never too short to F__K around!

'Sin' is a perception which is perpetuated as a moral wrong doing in this social & religious culture of ours.

Like a horizontal epidemic (across all land) & a vertical epidemic (across all generations), we were taught and constantly reinforced with guilt and shame on the perceived notion of sin.

However, by putting moral, social, cultural and religious values aside (as all these are not innate or biological), whatever actions (self or paired) or thoughts one may have, as long as there's no harm done unto another or others, your conscience will be clear without guilt. Then, that's when the notion of sin will cease to exist.

[HuiGe3387]

In the Christian context or even in other religion, it's a sin to have impure thoughts. The Bible says when a man looks upon a woman lustfully, he has already committed a sin. During pcc, man will look at magzines or try to imagine they do the FJ with a colleague, fren, movie star to simulate a sexual intercourse situation in order to bring the penis to climax.

If can pcc without sexual or immoral thots, then it's not a sin ? Impossible unless WET DREAM lah

[biker_man]

Yes it is a sin.

Especially if you are a guy

Good spunk should not be wasted on a tissue.

Instead it should be in a living female body

[Castrol]

after every pcc, i will tell my deedee, "i am sorry, its a sin, but i'll get you a FL asap!"