Fionn wrote:You can probably thank Victorian age medicine for the hysteria surrounding masturbation. Both male and female. Though they didn't seem to believe masturbation lead to promiscuity, it did lead to insanity and a host of other diseases.
These two articles are short and quite interesting:
Alas, the invention of the vibrator had nothing to do with love in the afternoon or sexual liberation. It was originally a labor-saving device to help doctors give their female patients a ''hysterical paroxysm'' -- that is, an orgasm.
What in the world were doctors doing vibrating their female patients to orgasm? The simple answer is that their fingers got tired. The complicated answer is delivered in Maines's short, stimulating, repetitive and occasionally frustrating book, ''The Technology of Orgasm: 'Hysteria,' the Vibrator, and Women' s Sexual Satisfaction.''
Well, one day Eve had a headache and Adam was.......
when believers want to give their claims more weight, they dress these claims up in scientific terms. When believers want to belittle atheism or secular humanism, they call it a "religion". -Beastie
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moksha wrote:Mormon leaders know this masturbation stuff occurred when Adam and Eve ate the knowledge fruit which gave them an understanding of opposable thumbs.
A good theory, Mok, but did Eve really need an opposable thumb?
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moksha wrote:Mormon leaders know this masturbation stuff occurred when Adam and Eve ate the knowledge fruit which gave them an understanding of opposable thumbs.
A good theory, Mok, but did Eve really need an opposable thumb?
I wonder, is it a temporal thing or a spiritual thing.... It seems to me both have issues.
If it's a temporal, physical based rule to not M., because every seed is holy, then wouldn't it follow that only procreational sex be allowed? Recreational sex with ones spouse even using the rhythm system would seem to be wasting seed also. But is this a TR interview question?
I guess I don't actually know the church stance on birth control.
If it's a spiritual based rule to not M.,because one would be sinning in their heart, would it be OK to M. if one were to only fantasize about ones spouse? Also, aren't there numerous other sins just as awful as M. that one could think about that should then also be on the prohibited list?
Tarski: In reference to your post on another thread as to how your mind pictures equations, I'd be curious to hear how your mind pictures.....when you...I mean, if you....Oh never mind.
tana39 wrote:I wonder, is it a temporal thing or a spiritual thing.... It seems to me both have issues.
If it's a temporal, physical based rule to not M., because every seed is holy, then wouldn't it follow that only procreational sex be allowed? Recreational sex with ones spouse even using the rhythm system would seem to be wasting seed also. But is this a TR interview question?
I guess I don't actually know the church stance on birth control.
If it's a spiritual based rule to not M.,because one would be sinning in their heart, would it be OK to M. if one were to only fantasize about ones spouse? Also, aren't there numerous other sins just as awful as M. that one could think about that should then also be on the prohibited list?
Tarski: In reference to your post on another thread as to how your mind pictures equations, I'd be curious to hear how your mind pictures.....when you...I mean, if you....Oh never mind.
When I was composing that post I was searching my memory banks for the proper term.... Every sperm is ....holy? No. Every sperm is.....wonderful, godlike.... Brett Favre?....No. I'd forgotten about that skit.....Good one!