If you are not a Christian, you may read but please respect our way of thinking because we do think differently than you do.

In this context, we talk of masturbation as the act of deriving sexual pleasure from self stimulation.

I once asked God why I felt guilty when I masturbated when, to me then, there was no where in the Bible where masturbation is condemned. In His kindness, I got this response(in effect):

" Just as suicide is a form of murder, masturbation is a form of homosexuality. Sex is designed to be enjoyed by a male and a female married to each other. Anything outside this is sin."

The term sexual immorality in modern new testament translation or fornication in old translations like King James Version is a word that describes illicit sex generally, which for us is sexual experience or pleasure not between a husband and his wife. It includes pornography, adultery, sex with prostitute, masturbation, incest, homosexuality and so on.

Instead of trying to lower God's standard, which we can't do anyway, God says we should come boldly to the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace TO HELP us in our time of need.(Hebrews 4:16).

It is when we exclude God's grace from our thinking that God looks unfair to us. He never planned for us to obey Him without His help.