Catholic Myths About Masturbation

The catholic church, nay religion in general has a few queer things to say about a great many things. Some things to say about things that are almost irrefutable for example, Darwinian evolution and some other odd ideas about virgin births and transubstantiation. But the catholic church and Christianity in general have always had some very strange ideas about masturbation. For example, as a child many people were told that if they masturbated they would go blind, that they would get hairy palms and ultimately they would go to hell. These are all very scary things for innocent children easily manipulated by fear and threats which have constantly been enlisted throughout the history of religious dogma. St. Thomas Aquinas for example described masturbation as an 'unnatural vice' and placed it in the same category as bestiality. In fact he suggested that men who carried out this practice were in fact less manly than other men. On one catholic site a search for religion and masturbation they claimed that masturbation was essentially 'self-abuse' on par with child-abuse, this complete and utter tripe should never meet the ears of a child guilting them into sexually repressive behaviour. The site goes on to say that 'It [masturbation] lowers self-esteem and self-confidence from a lack of self-control'. There is so much nonsense about masturbation, scientific and psychological studies show that masturbation is a normal part of sexual development and no adolescent should be chastised or made to feel guilty for such behaviour.