Is Watching Porn and Masturbating to It a Sin?

[technofox]

That is honestly kind of how I interpret Matthew 5 : 28.....that if you are married, it is wrong to lust after other women, even to just look at them like that is basically the same thing as committing adultery with her in your heart. But I don't see anywhere or remember any verses that say you can't lust after another married woman, if your not married youself.....where are you getting that from?

The OT is a good place that clarifies this. In order for adultery to be committed, the woman has to either be engaged or married to someone else. If you lust after her regardless if you are married or single, it is still adultery, because you are coveting your neighbor's wife. If you are a married man and she is an unmarried female, that becomes more of a grey area under the OT due adultery being more tied the woman's marital status. However in my perspective I would consider either party married or engaged lusting after another would be considered adultery if that makes sense.

 

[SwordFall]

Can you please give me some verses or scripture that say masturbation is wrong please?

You don't need verses specifically on masturbation, because there are plenty of verses that speak on debauchery, which masturbation falls under.

But if you really have any education whatsoever on the Levites, you would know that spilling one's seed in vain is an affront to God.

 

[Lion King]

The goal of the christian is to live a chaste life. Both masturbation and pornography encourage the opposite and lead us away from being Christ like.

 

[Andrea411]

Porn is about $$$$....It's a drug...It's addictive. You look at woman as meat....It's all lust. There's no love in porn.

No porn is about victims, both the sex worker and the watcher…. those that make money on it are just magazine executives who never have to get their hands dirty doing it… its far worse then anyone can imagine. Most workers were victims of sexual abuse or are addicts who will do anything to get their fix, yes they are paid but their is no way to buy back their dignity. Christians are one of the biggest buyers of porn…. thinking its a safe place to relieve themselves without actually sleeping around. Sad - they do not realize the hold it can have on them and the shame and degradation they feel when they realize they can't function without it….
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[technofox]

No porn is about victims, both the sex worker and the watcher…. those that make money on it are just magazine executives who never have to get their hands dirty doing it… its far worse then anyone can imagine. Most workers were victims of sexual abuse or are addicts who will do anything to get their fix, yes they are paid but their is no way to buy back their dignity. Christians are one of the biggest buyers of porn…. thinking its a safe place to relieve themselves without actually sleeping around. Sad - they do not realize the hold it can have on them and the shame and degradation they feel when they realize they can't function without it…. go to XXX ministries for help Porn Addiction Recovery: Essential Tips for Awareness, Prevention and Recovery

The truth is only a few woman actually join porn for the money and glamor that were never sexually abused or addicted to drugs. I always wonder what these porn actors and actresses are thinking. Katie Morgan for example explains how she enjoys the power and pleasure she gets from it, but she also understood that it's not a long term career. As for most of the women/men they were abused or addicted to drugs and needed quick cash with minimal work.

 

[mkgal1]

**Blind posting

Sin is missing the mark of God's will and goodness for us. Porn is damaging to a person's real-life relationships (emotionally and physically) so it's reasonable to believe that makes it a sin.

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[MKJ]

Watching porn is really no different than going out and hiring prostitutes so you can watch them go at it while you wack off.

 

[Rhamiel]

MKJ, blunt but true

on an unrelated note, I hope you and your family had a lovely Christmas

 

[MKJ]

MKJ, blunt but true

on an unrelated note, I hope you and your family had a lovely Christmas

We did, thanks! And the same to you. It was very snowy and cold here.

 

[SomeonePleaseHelpMe]

If you go to any site preferably a Christian site for porn addicts you will find just one of the reasons porn is not good for you. It is actually addictive and can hurt any future relationship with a spouse….

Okay, but what if it doesn't become addictive? Say something you only watched like 3 or 4 times a month....And like I said, I don't ever plan on getting married. I wish I could, but I have acquired an STD that I don't want to give to someone I love, therefore, I never want to get married.

 

[SomeonePleaseHelpMe]

Look, let's just be realistic, everything we do is based in iniquity (sin). Sin is selfishness...sin is the love of self.

God has designed that marriage should house sexual gratification. If not STD run rampant and unwanted pregnancies, etc. Not only this, but living lose brings jealousy, murder, envy, etc.....

I don't get it though. How does masturbating cause harm to anyone? All it is doing is pleasing myself, something that anybody who has a functioning sex organ wants to do. I am not going to spread any STD's or get anyone pregnant from this. I am not going to cause anyone any jealousy or any of the other bad things that you said. I am not supporting the "sex biz" as some people think, because I only watch a certain type that contains real people filming themselves and putting it on the internet, not actual people who are pornstars getting paid. I just don't seem any harm in it, I don't understand why it is wrong.

 

[SomeonePleaseHelpMe]

You don't need verses specifically on masturbation, because there are plenty of verses that speak on debauchery, which masturbation falls under.

But if you really have any education whatsoever on the Levites, you would know that spilling one's seed in vain is an affront to God.

Debauchery is definitely not what masturbation is. Debauchery is excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures. And what are you talking about the Levites and spilling one's seed?

 

[SomeonePleaseHelpMe]

**Blind posting

Sin is missing the mark of God's will and goodness for us. Porn is damaging to a person's real-life relationships (emotionally and physically) so it's reasonable to believe that makes it a sin.

I thought sin was doing disobeying the law of the bible? And how does porn damage a person's real-life relationships?

 

[SomeonePleaseHelpMe]

Watching porn is really no different than going out and hiring prostitutes so you can watch them go at it while you wack off.

Well, actually it is different. It's watching two people over a computer screen....

 

[Setyoufree]

I thought sin was...disobeying the law of the bible? And how does porn damage a person's real-life relationships?

Because porn presents a women as meat for the sexual pleasure of men. There's no love in it....It's raw sexuality. It leads to a type of ownership.

In marriage sex should not be the whole of the marriage. Sex should be part of it, but not the whole.

Marriage is like a cake...the icing is sex, but try eating icing all the time with no commitment and love (the cake) and you'll get sick....

 

[Setyoufree]

1 Cor 7:5 (To married folks) Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

6 I say this as a concession, not as a command: 7 I wish that all men were as I am (i.e., not oversexed). But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that. 8 Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I am. 9 But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Who is Paul talking to? Believers!

If believers, who have Christ, are still failing in the arena of sexuality, it's better to marry than burn with passion. Otherwise you make a mess of your life and the lives of others.

 

[SomeonePleaseHelpMe]

Because porn presents a women as meat for the sexual pleasure of men. There's no love in it....It's raw sexuality. It leads to a type of ownership.

In marriage sex should not be the whole of the marriage. Sex should be part of it, but not the whole.

Marriage is like a cake...the icing is sex, but try eating icing all the time with no commitment and love (the cake) and you'll get sick....

You haven't explained how watching porn damages a persons real life-life relationships, at least in a way that makes sense to me.

 

[SomeonePleaseHelpMe]

1 Cor 7:5 (To married folks) Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

6 I say this as a concession, not as a command: 7 I wish that all men were as I am (i.e., not oversexed). But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that. 8 Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I am. 9 But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Who is Paul talking to? Believers!

If believers, who have Christ, are still failing in the arena of sexuality, it's better to marry than burn with passion. Otherwise you make a mess of your life and the lives of others.

Okay but like I said in a post earlier, what if someone doesn't want to get married? Are they not suppose to be able to have any sexual pleasure just because they don't want to get married?

 

[Rhamiel]

Okay but like I said in a post earlier, what if someone doesn't want to get married? Are they not suppose to be able to have any sexual pleasure just because they don't want to get married?

yeah
sex is for husband and wives
masturbation is a selfish act

 

[Setyoufree]

You haven't explained how watching porn damages a persons real life-life relationships, at least in a way that makes sense to me.

It ruined my marriage....But, by the grace of God, we remarried. However, I still struggle with the flesh in this area. Take it from a sinner it does ruin marriages and relationships.

That's all I have to say about that....