Masturbation

• Spencer W. Kimball, "Love vs. Lust", BYU Devotionals, 5 Jan 1965

• "Talking with Your Children about Moral Purity", Ensign, Dec 1986

Children should be taught not to masturbate at the first signs of puberty.

Masturbation can be described as manipulating one’s own sexual organs to produce sexual excitement.

"Sometimes masturbation is the introduction to the more serious sins of exhibitionism and the gross sin of homosexuality."

• "A Parent's Guide: Teaching Adolescents: from Twelve to Eighteen Years", 1985

Nocturnal emission is not masturbation.

Prophets have condemned masturbation throughout the ages.

The sin of masturbation occurs when a person stimulates his or her own sex organs for the purpose of sexual arousal.

• Amanda Chatel, "5 OUTRAGEOUS Things We Bet You Never Knew About Masturbation", YourTango, 25 Feb 2016

• "History of masturbation", Wikipedia

• "Judaism and masturbation", Wikipedia

Notes

A have a suspicion that current teachings regarding masturbation are based more on cultural taboos than the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I am unaware of any real scriptural basis for what we (though, really, almost exclusively the youth) are often taught.

Cross-References

• Chastity
• Fornication
• Sex