Leviticus 15:16-17 says that a man who has an emission of semen should wash and be ceremonially unclean until evening. Onan's offense was the deliberate destruction of human life and his refusal to fulfill the obligation of levirate marriage. The story was written by a "prescientific mind" that considered the child to be contained in the sperm the same way a plant is contained in its seed. According to James Nelson, Onan's act was condemned due to the firm "procreative" accent of the Hebrew interpretation regarding sexuality, where survival of the tribe depends on abundant procreation.
The biblical story of Onan (Genesis 38) is traditionally linked to referring to masturbation and condemnation thereof, but the sexual act described by this story is coitus interruptus, not masturbation. Passages in Genesis 38 and Leviticus 15 have been held to implicitly condemn or approve of masturbation, but again others disagree there is not a clear statement. Although some commentators view the word porneia as a catchall term to include all forms of unchastity, including masturbation, others vehemently disagree. The word masturbation is never specifically mentioned in the Bible or the Book of Mormon, nor are there any clear unchallenged references to masturbation. Most scholars have held that there are no explicit prescriptions in the Bible about masturbation. Abrahamic religions Biblical scholarship 'Beginning in the 1950s, picking up energy with the feminism of the 1960s and early 1970s, with the subsequent sex wars, and with the worldwide gay movement of the last quarter of the century, it would become an arena of sexual politics and for art across a wide spectrum of society.Due to this cultural change across the spectrum, even theological reassessments of masturbation as a positive sexual practice were possible – though, admittedly, rare." Ī 2016 Psychology Today article stated that the more religious people are, the more likely they are to restrict their sexual fantasies, have fewer sex partners, use less pornography and express stronger disapproval of the use of sex toys. Masturbation was now valued as an adult, non-pathological, pleasurable activity. Many Protestant churches in Northern and Western Europe and some Protestant churches in Northern America and in Australia/New Zealand see masturbation as not a sin.Īccording to Björn Krondorfer, "Auto-erotic sex became conceivable as a distinct entity among sexual sins only when the autonomous self emerged." He goes on to cite Laqueur, "Only after the Freudian revolution.did a cultural shift occur. Today, Roman Catholic (including Eastern Catholic), Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and some Protestant Christians consider masturbation to be a sin. For example, Christian denominations have different views on masturbation. Among these latter religions, some view masturbation as allowable if used as a means towards sexual self-control, or as part of healthy self-exploration, but disallow it if it is done with motives they consider to be wrong, or as an addiction. Some religions view it as a spiritually detrimental practice, some see it as not spiritually detrimental and others take a situational view.
Among the world's religions, views on masturbation vary widely.
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