So there I was, ready to write a rebuttal to the tirade of anti-masturbatory propaganda on-line. Armed with a list of mythbusting facts, a healthy disdain for religious dogma and a copy of razzle (ask your dads kids), I set about finding the worst examples of bigotry available, shouldn't be too hard, I thought. But you know what? the silence was deafening.
Aside from a few fruit loop neo-conservative types I found hardly anything. It seems even the traditional leaders of the moral crusade against onanism; The Catholic church, are now split on the subject. A modern view in the church says if it stops adultery, then it is permissible. Pfft.. things just ain't what they used to be. You knew where you stood when taking matters into your own hands was punishable by 3 hail marys.* Perhaps masturbation is not the big moral issue that it once was.
Most google search results for masturbation are linked to how to do it properly or to comedy/satirical sites, such as the 'officious George Bush site' or the mildly amusing 'onanabics' home page. This would indicate it is more of an embarrassing taboo rather than a huge moral dilemma for the general public. I have to admit I was rather shocked by the content of the Wiki page on masturbation. I've seen less graphic images on Pornhub.
*i did find one person who had been told by his priest at confession to think of Jesus while he masturbated, which somewhat restored my faith in the institution
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