Jesus Doesn't Care if You Masturbate, and Other Provocations
1. A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled upon this post on the Patheos Catholic channel . In it, a young woman named Marina S. Olsen began what she promised is a series of posts discussing sexual sins, and she begins with masturbation. To call the post alarmist would not do it justice--even in the heyday of the drug scares in the 80s, an anti-drug ad that adopted this tone would be seen as over-the-top. But something struck me in reading her post--Ms. Olsen believes, with an apparently unshakable conviction, that what the Catholic Church has to say about masturbation is true. Actually, that's not quite right--she takes as a given that what the Church says about masturbation is true. It is noticeable that at no point does she try to do the Dr. Greg trick, which is to justify her opposition to masturbation on the basis of ostensibly neutral or scientific grounds . No, her thesis is that people despair about masturbation because masturbation is going to result in those folks
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