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Do you personally believe masturbation is a sin?
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<blockquote data-quote="Aeroflotte" data-source="post: 63580131" data-attributes="member: 333913"><p>Males and females may think about sex differently, but that's not what's happening here. Hetta is concerned about masturbation as if the objective act of masturbating and the intent behind it were one and the same. I was splitting masturbation into the <strong>act</strong> and the <strong>intent</strong>. </p><p></p><p>It's important that the distinction is made, because on one hand, if you're masturbating alone then you're pleasing yourself (subject-subject relationship); on the other hand if you're sharing then you're having someone else pleasure you (subject-object relationship). If you're the giver <em>and</em> the receiver at the same time, then masturbation is entirely self-contained. Instead of masturbation being used as an opportunity to reach out to another human being, you're closing yourself off, albeit in a minute way.</p><p></p><p>Being closed off emotionally from yourself and others is the root of sin in my book. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Your argument assumes that your depiction of sin and my depiction of sin are one and the same.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aeroflotte, post: 63580131, member: 333913"] Males and females may think about sex differently, but that's not what's happening here. Hetta is concerned about masturbation as if the objective act of masturbating and the intent behind it were one and the same. I was splitting masturbation into the [B]act[/B] and the [B]intent[/B]. It's important that the distinction is made, because on one hand, if you're masturbating alone then you're pleasing yourself (subject-subject relationship); on the other hand if you're sharing then you're having someone else pleasure you (subject-object relationship). If you're the giver [I]and[/I] the receiver at the same time, then masturbation is entirely self-contained. Instead of masturbation being used as an opportunity to reach out to another human being, you're closing yourself off, albeit in a minute way. Being closed off emotionally from yourself and others is the root of sin in my book. Your argument assumes that your depiction of sin and my depiction of sin are one and the same. [/QUOTE]
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