Masturbation

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Is there a health need to masturbate?

< No. Nocturnal emissions keep the system flowing.

If there is an overflow of a particular liquid, it would get released. The sperm probably won’t get released

< No. Some orthodox Jews probably never masturbated and are not reported sick.

The 2 famous studies saying that masturbation at an early age prevents prostate cancer didn’t mention about orthodox Jews having the most prostate cancer.
Also, there's no survey saying they have more prostate cancer than others.

Circumcision = No Masturbation

- Jews would have circumcision, so they can't masturbate by themselves or fiddle while young. So they stayed clean.

- The lack of the foreskin made it difficult to stimulate.

- They probably have memory that utmost pain came from that area, hence they never touch it.

- The only way to masturbate is in the vagina or a replica (which is really hard to find).

Movie showed a young Jew who didn’t masturbate.

It portrayed a young Jew fleeing from the Holocaust, on a train and an old fat woman in her 30's wanted to have sex with him. He didn't know what was happening till his penis went in. Then he saw that it felt good and continued as if this is his first time knowing what his penis does.

>> But what evidence do you have that they don’t?

< No. Blue balls are caused by getting horny and then not masturbating. Not masturbating when you’re not horny doesn’t cause blue balls.

Getting horny causes the tissue to get swollen and prepared fluids go nowhere. It goes away and is preventable.

Source: Wikipedia's nocturnal emission

>> Sort of. God didn’t command circumcision to be the complete cut of the foreskin, therefore, God wasn’t against masturbation.

So we can’t say there were no health benefits.

Does the Bible recommend masturbation?

< STRONG No. God said that if there was a flow of semen, then the men would be unclean till evening.

· Being unclean is not a good thing, esp since you can’t do many of the priestly functions while unclean.

· Also, the need to wash up implies that something dirty must be cleaned up, hence the flow of semen from masturbation.

· If the people in the camp (Old Testament) all masturbated or had nocturnal emissions, there would be none inside. Therefore, it was common all people didn't masturbate every night. After the person slept outside, he must wash his clothes and body and in the evening he is clean and can come back inside.

· STRONG during or before a battle, soldiers must not sleep with women and must keep themselves clean. It's the case with David when he was asked whether his men slept with any women, so that he can eat the sacred bread. (1Samauel 21:4)

Did God prohibit masturbation in general?

< No. He just said that it made the person unclean.

And after the person was unclean, then he would have to wash himself up.