Dr. Shades wrote:Am I the only one who never masturbated while on his mission?
Perhpas your sex drive is lower than average.
Yeah, but when you go without for a a few days your temperature hits a perpetual boiling point anyway. I had companions who prayed for wet dreams. Those offered a day of maybe 90 degree weather, but after that it was back up to 100 for at least 6 weeks. And yes, you do suffer guilt in those dreams. I must have been excommunicated 7 times in my sleep already before waking up.
I'm not saying that missionaries do not masturbate because they always ask about it in interviews. But I don't think 90% of missionaries masturbate during the mission. It's impossible to know for sure, but it would seem to me to be more around 20%. I also very much doubt more than 10% of sister missionaries masturbated.
I felt guilty enough being bombarded with pornography, but eventually I realized that you can only stare at the sidewalk so long before you start running into stuff.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
marg wrote:Perhpas your sex drive is lower than average.
No. Without regular release, my sex drive was 10x higher than average.
Just ask anyone who knew me in my teens and twenties.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
Shades do you really think that many missionaries in your mission masturbated? Maybe I was just naïve, but I really see it as the exception rather than the rule.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
Well if some of my fellow missionaries did this, I certainly didn't know anything about it. I guess it's hard for sexually active people to believe that other people could be celibate.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
ajax18 wrote:Shades do you really think that many missionaries in your mission masturbated?
I have no idea. At the time, however, I projected: Since I didn't, I assumed that nobody else did either.
Maybe I was just naïve, but I really see it as the exception rather than the rule.
That's exactly how I felt at the time, too. Now, though, I simply have no way of knowing.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
You are not the only one. I didn't either. And my drive if off the charts, I'm a complete pervert. But I also know how to redirect my focus as necessary (I am master of my ship), and I deemed it necessary on my mission to comply 100% with the Lord's recommendations on this matter. honestly, after about a month, it wasn't a challenge. But then again, I am master of my ship.
I never did before my mission either. But in truth, it was always a challenge, my entire life. I can't say it ever let up.
But seriously, I don't see how it would have been possible to get away with it in the MTC, and most foreign language missionaries are there for a full 2 months.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
Ajax if you could do it over again, would you comply with church authority statements on
this no masturbating rule? Do you question church authority now or do you comply without questioning on other issues besides this one?