What Does The Master Say About Masturbation?

I know this topic is going to attract much attention. If folks who have never read any of my blogs before I know they will read this one LOL!!!! Well, the answer to the question is..... NOTHING!!!! There is no biblical suggestion or prohibition to masturbation. There have been many teachings and practices against masturbation in religious groups that have created a world of guilt and shame in those who find themselves in situations where they have no married partner. Now first of all, I'm only talking to the saved people because unsaved people are not concerned about pleasing God in their bodies but they will masturbate and fornicate and not worry about how God sees it. So to Christians who may be worried that they have committed the unpardonable sin by relieving themselves, I believe God has sent me in this field to further clarify the subject. We as servants of the Lord want to first and foremost please God in our minds, souls, and bodies. So talking about the subject of sex itself, God makes it plain was is permitted and what is prohibited in scripture. However, three things that the bible is silent on are masturbation, oral sex, and sex toys. These three things have really bound many Christians up to the point that they feel guilty by just thinking about engaging in are oral sex,  masturbation alone or with their married partner and if using sex toys are forbidden. Now let's go to the Word about the natural order of sex. In both the Old  and New Testament, God laid out the laws against sexual immortality and they include....  sex with animals (bestiality), incest (sex with a family member), watching pornography (looking upon someone's nakedness or looking and lusting after them), homosexuality and lesbianism (Read the entire chapter of Romans 1), sex with in-laws, sex before marriage (fornication), extramarital affairs (adultery), rape (forced sex against someone's will), prostitution (sex for money), sex during menstruation, and last but not least, anal sex is in alignment with the sin of lasciviousness and even medical doctors will tell you that anal sex is the most dangerous kind of sex because it can easily spread diseases such as E. Coli, HIV/AIDS and over time anal sex damages the anal cavity and rectum making it difficult to control bowel. Many people who have engaged in anal sex (especially women) reach a point to where vaginal sex is no longer pleasurable and they prefer sex from the behind. Now if that's not unnatural, I don't know what is, because she has totally lost her natural sensation that God originally gave her and rather be treated rough like a dog and can't be satisfied unless it's that way. How sad!!!! Lascivious means an offensive sexual desire and anal sex is at the peak of offenses toward the human body and toward the Creator. Furthermore, anal sex is a homosexual act  called sodomy and degrades the body and the mind because of its uncleanness. For God has not called us unto uncleanness but unto holiness (1 Thessalonians 4:7) So with all these examples of what God does not allow clearly in scripture, the big questions are about those things that are not mentioned in scripture. I will first deal with single Christians and remain in line with what Paul said to singles. First of all, I will say that masturbation is like anything else that is not mentioned in the bible but God leaves it up to the individual to use common sense and follow the conviction that is in their own heart not to be persuaded to do or not to do anything that will bring condemnation to them for conscience sake. For example, I personally do not wear red lipstick even though the bible speaks nothing against red lipstick or lipstick at all but it is my own personal conviction that I do not try to impose on other Christian women because this is MY standard not necessarily something that is exclusively right and should be adopted by other women. No, I'm not crazy neither do I try to make other sisters a clone after myself just to establish a "personal" conviction. Another thing is cigarettes are not mentioned in the bible but the package itself explains the harm that it does to the human body. So back to the subject of masturbation......Paul says in 1 Corinthians 7:7 that he wished that all men were as he were, referring to being single because Paul was not married, then he goes on to say that every man has his proper gift from God, meaning some can remain single with no problem but others had to marry. He said in verse 9 that if they cannot contain, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn. The word contain means to control, to hold back or hold within. In this instance, Paul was referring to releasing oneself to orgasm. Paul did not have a wife by his own personal choosing, kind of like me abstaining from red lipstick. He never mentions that he did or did not masturbate himself to get a release even once. It is only our perception based on what he did write about other saved men serving the Lord without marrying a wife and he also said that it would be a good thing if unmarried women and widows could remain unmarried BUT he also said that if they marry, they have not sinned. So the main thing that Paul pointed out was that an unmarried person is better able to serve the Lord because they are not tied down with having to please a spouse sexually. He was not talking against marriage in itself because he is the same man who wrote Colossians 3:18-19 which says Wives submit yourselves to your own husbands and husbands love your wives. There are other scriptures in relation to the love and affection shared between husband and wife. Hebrews 4:13 says marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled meaning that whatever the husband and wife choose to do to please each other, as long as they don't defile their bed by making it unclean with the above mentioned sexual sins, then it is acceptable in the eyes of God. Oral sex, masturbation, and sex toys are not mentioned in any of the verses so that is where common sense should come into play. God wants married Christians to enjoy their marriage bed because it is the playground for couples. Good personal hygiene and having sex without pain are two thumbs up for this to happen. Some might believe that anything outside of the missionary style or with only the purpose to conceive a child is sin. Not so!!!! The world is already over populated with women who only have two or three children. If  every childbearing woman was to have up to 15, 20, and 25 kids, then I imagine there wouldn't be any time for good sex but just cut straight to the chase, and we're not talking about a minute man, but in this case, we're down to seconds. Anyway, there are several reasons why I would not consider masturbation a sin because it cannot lead to unwanted pregnancies, STD' s, or ruin a person's reputation like sleeping around can. If a person is single and want to save themselves for marriage, then I would not be so hard up to tell them that they never need to touch themselves, but would at the same time let them know that ANYTHING done in excess is a sin called greed. In other words, the Holy  Spirit is the ONLY thing that should be in control of a Christian's life, not their sexual appetite. Some single Christians really find themselves in a pickle because they either can't find a partner who is as serious about the Lord as they are or the other person want to date without marriage commitment. However, the Apostle Paul was not waiting on God to send him the right woman to marry because his decision was already made not to get married or to have sex. For an individual to be that kind of overcomer they would have to renounce any type of sexual desires whatsoever and not masturbating would comply with all else. There are medical facts that masturbation is healthy and it is certainly not a degrading sexual act that makes God want to kill people like he did Sodom and Gomorrah or punish the sin of adultery like he did David and Bathsheba. So in this case, again, common sense should apply. Sex toys is a topic that is taboo for some Christians and they stand with a wand of judgment to condemn any aspects of it in singleness or marriage. However, sex toys can really spice up the Christian marriage especially when endurance is the case or if the husband is impotent altogether. These are things that will never be discussed in Sunday School and so many marriages fail because people are either too embarrassed or shunned by their religious group to bring the subject up. Well that's what I'm here for and my blog page because one thing I hate is ignorance. I mean I know of a couple who got a divorce because the wife cheated with another man. Why did she cheat? Because she was not free to express her feelings of wanting oral sex with her husband so she snuck and did it with somebody else. Come on now how ignorant can you get? They threw away a 13-year marriage all because of a teaching that is not even biblical just so the wife could get sexual pleasure. Now is God pleased with that? NO, but he is pleased when couples can communicate and come to an agreement for the betterment and longevity of their marriage.