Hi 4-D.
As usual, I'll give my opinion.
Hey guys, I was meaning to write this yesterday but got distracted. I was talking to some members from this site and read some posts here regarding sex and masturbation and that they are unhealthy spiritually and phsyically. something which i dont think is true. I was going hiking yesterday so on my journey i had a think about what was said into discussion.
my friend thinks that masturbation is unhealthy and so is watching porn and when i say unhealthy i refer to both physically , mentally and spiritually.
I think there is a big difference regarding masturbation and porn, and the only similarity is the sex drive and the use of imagination- but I don't see them as similar. Here's why:
Masturbation is a healthy response to sexual stimulation. As long as it's done within acceptable cultural standards- (which should be obvious- in private, not around children, etc.) but it's a necessary part of our biology- a drive.
Pornography is an industry that has been created around the need for visual stimulation. Although the reason for it isn't 'wrong', it gives rise to many things that are problematic- victimization and other things, such as slavery and it just plain gives the wrong impression on what is pleasurable. Sex that is pleasurable does not look like what porno looks like- the actors are just that- actors. And sometimes the younger viewers get the wrong impression of what women like, because of what they've seen in pornography.
If this is true then sex must also be unhealthy since the same process happenes except its with another person.
You know this is absurd. Just because something unhealthy has something in common with something that's healthy doesn't mean it's all unhealthy. Let me illustrate:
Junk food is unhealthy, hence the name. There's many reasons for that- too much fat, too much sugar, possibly harmful chemicals.
Both fat and sugar are forms of food (lipids and carbs.)
Fruit is a food, and it has sugar in it, and some fruits have fat in them (like olives, for example).
Following the above reason, we'd have to conclude that since fruit and junk food have many things in common, they must all be unhealthy.
Do you see how wrong this reasoning went?
I think its not unhealthy and its the total opposite i think its healthy ... spiritually i think thaty sex and masturbation help unblock the root charka and develop it. physically sex helps us reproduce, to some extent gives us exercise and feels good and menatally sex helps us explore the other person and ourselves and gain trust etc and masturbation mentally helps us explore ourselves and fantasies.
Exactly.
for millennia, sex has been used in religous practice and rites ...what changed was the rise of christianity in our modern day society and fear of ourselves.
Correct, and for cultural reasons.
I wanna conclude by explaining why i think people think masturbation is bad. as it is pretty obvious why sex is considered bad and thats mainly because of christianity and because of the movement during the 60's and all through the 20th century.
I think masturbation is considered bad firstly because when we do it we try to think of what turns us on and our own fantasies. People are not comfertable with that as most are nt about sex there about power and people dont feel comfertable known that they find this attractive or that they are beings capable of thinking some bizare stuff . Are simply they just dont wanna feel un moral (if thats a real word)
Plus, being told not to masturbate creates sexual frustration, and sexual frustration can be channeled into making people soldiers, and more aggressive. Hence, sexual frustration makes people into tools (pun intended).
Cheers.
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