Oh, and I'd also like to hear stories of bishops stepping over the line in enforcing the "no masturbation" rule and/or questioning kids or adults about it.
Holy shit! That first one, reading the suggestion made me actually laugh! How about you just stick a BOM down the front of our hard-to-open PJ's as a physical barrier?
I wonder if they ever tell you that all this talk about how "evil" masturbation is will lead to a thought that your body is foul, you should never be happy with it, and that your husband shouldn't ever touch unless it's to procreate. My hell... they may as well tell us we only have sex in the missionary position with the lights off and the bedsheets drawn. My own damn sister was freaking 26 when she had sex and she and her hubby wore SWIMSUITS in their hot tub ALONE. Nice... maybe the GA's should just start imseminating women so that it's not considered sexual LOL.
my TBM parents used to have a hot tub inside of their house. The first time I visited them after they got it, they invited me to use it. But I was asked to shower first and remove my clothes before getting in. Not with them there with me, but my husband was with me. All I could think about was that they had been using it for weeks naked. We decided to go to bed instead.
I will never forget my WTF moment when I read the masturbation pamphlet my stepson brought home from church.
First, I thought the suggestions for avoidance were insane. The one that got me the most was tying yourself to your bed. OMG! Really!? My SS was about 14 at the time. To me it sounded like a beginners pamphlet to S&M.
I had a chat with him right away about that crazy info. I told him that those old buzzards were so out of touch with reality and society that it alarmed me.
I told him that it was none of their business what he was doing in his sex life or his bedroom. I talked to him for about an hour. I would have had his dad talk to him, but his dad was out of the country at the time, and I didn't think it could wait.
A year later the kid had sex with his girlfriend. First thing he did was go to the bish and tell him ALL. He was immediately humiliated in front of the entire ward. He couldn't pass, or take the sacrament for 6 months. The gossip was rampant. Hopefully he learned why he shouldn't be talking to people at church about his sex life. His dad ripped the bishop a new one.
The irony being the bish's son was doing way worse things. He just knew better than to tell anyone. He was not only sleeping with his girlfriend, but also her friends. He drank like a fish and had no problem slapping the girls around. He was an arrogant little prick. It would be interesting to know where he's at now, 15 years later.
Unfortunately, I can't document it because I heard it from his own mouth, but when Vaughan J. Featherstone visited my mission, to a roomful of masturbating missionaries he said: "That is sacred fluid." That's verbatim. So there's one for you.
Now, everyone: E-e-v'ry sperm is s-a-a-a-cr-e-e-d...
I've read this piece before, but I didn't notice the part about "aversion" therapy, specifically, the remedy of visualizing sitting in a bathtub full of worms and eating some of them when tempted to masturbate. WTF?!?
Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, p. 78 “... it [masturbation] too often leads to grievous sin, even to that sin against nature, homosexuality. For, done in private, it evolves often into mutual masturbation – practiced with another person of the same sex – and thence into total homosexuality.”
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I never once, in my entire masturbation career, wanted to "mutually" masturbate, especially at age 13. The reason I'm masturbating is because I want to be alone with my thoughts.
Okay, is that piece by Peterson authentic?? It seems too ridiculous, too ... I don't know ... I mean I know what creepy weirdos they are, but did they REALLY put this out there??
My husband was in junior high when his Mother was sucked into the JW's. That cult apparently doesn't respect personal boundaries either. She told him when he to went to sleep, to be laying on his side. Laying on his back was wrong because it made "it" too accessable, and laying on his stomach might be too stimulating.
my mother would sneak into my room and rip the covers off to see if she would catch me masturbating. If she caught me she would beat me with a wooden spoon, belt or her hands. She would also move the shower curtain real fast to try to catch me in the shower. I learned real fast to just lock the bathroom door. I was messing with God ordained property and I could cause an infection and not be able to have babies.It was an evil thing to do. Thank goodness I forced her signature on the Family Life Education forms. I got a real sex education and by 7th grade I'm pretty sure I knew more about sex than my mother.