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* [http://jonathandavidmedina.tumblr.com/post/108572236158/cs-lewis-talks-about-masturbation "C.S. Lewis talks about Masturbation"], Still Far from Home, 19 Jan 2015 | |||
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Revision as of 01:57, 3 March 2016
- 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."
- 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
- MormonFAQ/Church Discipline FAQ, FAIRMormon
- Claims that leaders are instructed not to hold disciplinary councils for masturbation.
- Masturbation, MormonThink
- A long set of quotes.
- Malan, Bullough, "HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF NEW MASTURBATION ATTITUDES IN MORMON CULTURE: SILENCE, SECULAR CONFORMITY, COUNTERREVOLUTION, AND EMERGING REFORM", Sexuality & Culture, Fall 2005
- Academic article, pro-masturbation, covering relevant Mormon history of attitudes regarding masturbation.
- No known coverage of the topic by Joseph Smith, Jr., or Brigham Young.
- Early discussion of the topic was clearly a reflection of dominant cultural attitudes informed by bad science.
- Early Judeo/Christian tradition looked down on masturbation.
- "C.S. Lewis talks about Masturbation", Still Far from Home, 19 Jan 2015
- Some excerpts of C. S. Lewis's thoughts on masturbation. (Always very thoughtful.)
Notes
I 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.