No sin but you should suredly know thyself!

It’s the mind-body dichotomy. It’s a bias against anything sensual and non-procreation centered.

You have to remember, the bible was written before the development of KY jelly and tissues. Men were allowed to screw anyone they wanted, and women weren't allowed to complain about it. So why waste a perfectly good boner? (I kid, but not really.)

Its not a sin. Religious people are afraid of there bodies to some degree. Which is very sad.

Sin requires the demonstrated existence of at least one god. I am without sin (thought I do enjoy masturbating).

It's the Sir Wankalots that condemn masturbation that annoys the jizz out of me.

It s from Genesis 38:9. Read the "joeandbarb" explanation below.

I'm not sure EVERY religious person says that. But, generally speaking, religious people are afraid of their own bodies.

Its brain washing.

Focus on the Family has toned down their rhetoric on this topic considerably over the years. But here's their current "reasoning" on why masturbation should be discouraged. [focusonthefamily.com]

@Manka77
I believe that there is a passage, in the bible, about not spilling one's "seed" on the ground, but have always taken this to be a population's wish to add more people to it. At the rate the human race is growing, now, perhaps masturbation ought to be encouraged allover the place.

Be grateful for the experience of You and your opportunity to live, here, now-
God, really?

The word Sin and the word God should be placed in their rightful place, "The World of Make Believe" because they are Man Made Names.

That's a topic that actually creates a lot of atheists. Obsessive anti-masturbation and shaming because of it caused us both to doubt when we were Morning (although it was not what made us stop believing). I know several atheist former Mormons who stopped believing because of the faith's abusive treatment of people who masturbate. I also watched an interview with Guillermo del Toro where he said that Catholicism's stance on masturbation led him to stop believing.

Pratchett expressed the sentiment that sin is when you love things and use people. Right living means loving people and using things.

No sky daddy or hairy thunderer or cosmic muffin required.

There is no answer to the idiotic gawd assumptions. ...learn Atheism critical thinking while jerking off. ...belief is your first error. ...know thyself. ...27 centuries of Greek Materialist wisdom....and Onan "spilled his seed on the ground" instead of fucking his brother's widow....only Atheists READ bibles. ...believers only FONDLE a few pages

The Bible and other religions that say masturbation is a sin do so because they think it's selfish. They are correct that it's selfish, but that doesn't make it bad. Look at the Saints of the Catholic Church. How many of them are depicted with smiles? None. Suffering is the ideal in Christianity. Mother Teresa is their ideal. Someone who spent their life in misery, sacrificing herself for others. Christianity holds that sex is only for procreation, not enjoyment. It is a sick doctrine. Many of our modern ideas of sacrifice as the moral good came from Christianity and are also sick.

At one time in America circumcision was practiced to discourage masturbation. Religious nuts did this. Will they practice cutting off hands next? IDK.

They're in denial.

The sin of Onan is used a lot to justify that. He was cursed for spilling his seed on the ground rather than impregnating his brothers widow.

I no longer worry about a book that is saturarted with contradictions and has god doing 99% of the evil...

Sin is imaginary just god other religious bs. They use "sin" during brain washing ceromonies(church services) to keep you in line. I'm glad I left the religious bs to be an happier and peaceful person.

Sin is a made up Christian concept with no basis in reality. I have never sinned in my life.

'Sin' doesn't exist. It was created by the same group of mentally ill people who wrote that bible. Masturbate away and often!

I was raised by super devout Christians, and I never heard of masturbation being sinful in the Bible.

Actually the whole 'it's better to let your seed end up in the belly of a whore than spill upon the ground' line is admonishment against masturbation.

2000 years ago in the deserts of the Middle East, mortality rates were high and life expectancy was low. And while genealogy was important socially and for inheritance, it's a survival strategy. If 1 in 5 children survive to adulthood, everyone needs to have five or six kids to ensure one or two adults.

And by religious rhetoric: god gave you the ability to experience that pleasure so you could deny it to yourself as proof of your devotion to God. Because he's a petty, jealous assclown with a borderline personality disorder.