And hooray for ipse dixit. However, a subject's place "in LDS theology" does not make it objectively true, or make it even reasonable or plausible. "LDS theology" also holds that the human race began with two people in Missouri circa 6,000 B.C.E. "LDS theology" also holds that the entire planet was covered with water a few thousand years ago, and that all human and animal life that now exists descended from the refugees on Noah's ark. "LDS theology" also holds that the origin of different languages in the world is God confusing people's speech at the tower of Babel. "LDS theology" also held, for 148 of its 181 years of existence, that Negroes were inferior to every other race on Earth. And so on.
Sometimes even Madalyn Murray 'O Hair could be more intellectually sophisticated than this.
I never cease to be impressed by how you alternate between claiming to embrace legitimate scholarship and studies, but then reject it as agenda-driven and "leftist," depending on whether you perceive such things as supporting your value judgments.
I actually don't think that you even take most of your criticisms of me seriously. I think you do it because of a deep, seething hatred of the Church, the gospel, Jesus Christ, and anything that smacks of the slightest limitation on or cramping of the life and lifestyle you desire to lead.
I think that your god lies somewhere between Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and your own gut, and so it surprises me little that you find my philosophy so infuriating.
Despite your references to "pop psychology," the scientific view that masturbation is normal and healthy is real psychology.
Its a philosophical opinion and belief within the highly secularized, secular humanistic, and long ago politically cleansed body of allied disciplines and modalities encompassing the field of counseling psychology, which is not science in any normative sense but "social" science, i.e., a philosophy of human behavior overlaid with a coating of empirical scientific methodology.
Fascinating how drones like Darth who act like soldier ants end in the servile gulping down of the trendy certitudes of the "experts"...like himself, of course.
Darth didn't, of course, even stop to think about how "science" could come to any certain conclusions at all regarding the value judgements and related to masturation, as actual science has nothing to say about those.
I also noticed the implicit circular argument embedded in the following statement:
Although masturbation is harmless, guilt created by the disapproval and punitive attitudes of other people may cause considerable distress and impair sexual performance.
And Droopy, it really isn't a manifestation of an anti-Mormon or "leftist" agenda for normal people to find it extremely creepy for a middle-aged man to take a teenager into a closed office for a session of truth-or-dare.
Yes it is, because few normal human beings except highly ideological leftists would not have implicit trust in the typical middle aged bishop or state president that no such thoughts would ever cross his mind. Normal human beings to not class all middle aged males - there friends, neighbors, and co-workers - as potential sexual predators and child molesters by definition.
That, as anyone with a thimble of education or awareness in the social and political history of the late 20th century knows perfectly well is the province of academic and popular gender feminism and its debased forms in the popular news and media culture.
A fair try at appearing to know what your talking about, Darth, but you give away your game in every sentence.