It's the Kinsey report. I think the 97% stat is correct, but either way it's an overwhlemingly massive majority.

About the other thing, I bet a similar percentage of married people would disagree with you. Mullah Omar would probably agree though...

You honestly think that 97% stat is right? Really? You think only 3 people out of every 100 don't do it? If so, you ought to find a new handle.

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If anything, it's the opposite.

Fundamenalists like you are purveyors of a wide assortment of needless guilt. This leads to tons of repressed men and women in the bible belt that don't know jack **** about sex or intimacy.

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You showed your view in all it’s nastiness, so now you want to attack Christians in the same, or a worse light… Anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together can see right through your empty rhetoric…

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You showed your view in all it’s nastiness, so now you want to attack Christians in the same, or a worse light… Anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together can see right through your empty rhetoric…

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Come off it man. Most Christians don't think masturbation is a sin (at least not enough to stop doing it), nor do they concern themselves about their state of mind when they are having sex with their wives. You're mad.

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Actually, it's higher for men.

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Come off it man. Most Christians don't think masturbation is a sin (at least not enough to stop doing it), nor do they concern themselves about their state of mind when they are having sex with their wives. You're mad.

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You wear your motives on your sleeve… You seek to bring others down to a level so that you do not feel so bad about your own state of being. Those who are not down to your level of behavior are nut-jobs, and wackos…

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Actually, it's higher for men.

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Not even Kinsey himself would have been crazy enough to make that statistic up.

I just did a little Kinsey research. Here are some other completely bogus Kinsey claims.

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Let’s consider the facts. When Kinsey and his coworkers published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948 and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female in 1953, they turned middle-class values upside down. Many traditionally forbidden sexual practices, Kinsey and his colleagues proclaimed, were surprisingly commonplace; 85 percent of men and 48 percent of women said they’d had premarital sex, and 50 percent of men and 40 percent of women had been unfaithful after marriage. Incredibly, 71 percent of women claimed their affair hadn’t hurt their marriage, and a few even said it had helped. What’s more, 69 percent of men had been with prostitutes, 10 percent had been homosexual for at least three years, and 17 percent of farm boys had experienced sex with animals.

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What a bunch of nonsense, but you can go ahead believing it if you want.

http://www.crisismagazine.com/may2004/kinsey.htm

PurdueAg, are you seriously suggesting that there is a large percentage of men who simply don't masturbate? Do you live under a rock? How many concussions have you had in your life? Because I can think of no other reason that you would be so incredibly naive.

The percentage of men who currently do or have masturbated in their life is probably around 99%. For women, it's probably also above 90% but not as high as men.

I don't have to find any link or source for the stats. Why? Because I can go out anywhere and ask any guy if they have masturbated in their life and be almost 100% sure they will say yes. In fact just about every guy my age that I have talked to has said that they masturbate on a consistent basis.

So I seriously have no idea where you get that a significant portion of guys don't masturbate.

It's not a question of whether or not they ever have done it. It's a question of whether or not they currently do. If it's the latter, then, yes, I maintain that the 97% statistic is ridiculous.

The 97% statistic came from the same guy that listed the other things from my previous post. Do you believe those as well?

Vander, you might want to watch out just how much of a masturbation zealot that you project yourself to be…

You do know that you will probably go blind, right?..

Nah, that's an old Boy Scout myth.

Well of course men over a certain age basically do it sparingly in comparison to what they used to.

However if you were to keep the demographic under 30, I would bet that the number would be near 99% of all men.

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You wear your motives on your sleeve… You seek to bring others down to a level so that you do not feel so bad about your own state of being.

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Actually, my point is that almost everyone is on "my level," even if they don't want to admit it (like you). Someone also should call out people like you that advocate aberrant sexual behavior.

I don't know about "aberrant". I prefer the term "counter-cultural".

Wanted to add this excellent meditation on the role of sexuality in human growth to the conversation:
http://www.soundingblog.com/index.php/orthodoxy-basics/why-wait-until-marriage.html

I think maybe a new thread would have been the better choice.

scram...or beat it

It would be interesting to hear a Catholic priest talk about his experiences in the confessional.. I would venture to guess that it is at the heart of almost all of the problems related to sin in male adolescents and young men in their 20's/maybe 30's nowadays, along with pornography.

For any serious Catholic male youths, many of whom I knew, it was and has been a serious hindrance to their spiritual development and faith, and been a wedge between them and seeking forgiveness through confession. Problem is that as the brain develops during those stages, it can lead to a problem with relationships and views of women and sexuality that persist well into their lives.

dp, yikes! it happens....rarely

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I can't believe there are people who actually believe there are large numbers of people in America who have literally never masturbated once.

This speaks nothing to whether its right or wrong, but that is incredibly naive.

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I still say this forum was 10 times more entertaining with Notafraid.

How is this conversation suppossed to happen without Notafraid to fuel it?

We taking the wayback machine today on R&P?

I will say that if I thought my wife would be the first person to respond to my thread, I wouldn't make it about masturbation.

Mohammed Tapdancing Prophet....there really isn't ANYTHING some Christians won't try to wreck. Whacking off if perfectly normal and natural. Whatever prude told you otherwise is full of ****.

And 98% of all men whack off. It's a well documented fact. The other 2% are lying their ass off. I don't think for a second some of you on this thread are sitting there screaming about sin and not rubbing one out before bed. How's the air up there??!!

Ms. Lovelight is nice, but I still miss Notafraid.

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but I still miss Notafraid.

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