Why Masturbation is a Sin
Scripture clearly teaches that sexual pleasure is to only be derived in the context of two people of the opposite sex within a lifelong covenant (aka marriage). There are three parts involved for sex to be lawful/natural: the number of individuals (two), the sex of the individuals (opposite), and the commitment of the individuals (marriage covenant). Masturbation fails in all three parts. Yes, God designed sex to be pleasurable as it is supposed to deepen intimacy between husband and wife. But, when you condition yourself with years of self pleasure you begin to view sex, marriage and women as something to extract from, to use for your own sexual desires. This is why masturbation is immoral. It can turn you into a selfish man. When sex is supposed to be a selfless, mutual, loving act. Masurbation as a single man is also immoral since you are satisfying yourself to a sexual fantasy that is either imaginary or visual which conditions you to fetishize and idealize women in an unnatural way that can create shame, fear and uncertainty in your ability to lead, court and treat your future wife with love. There are three reasons why masturbation is immoral: #1 - MASTURBATION INVOLVES A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL First, masturbation is sinful because it involves a single individual. In this sense, it is an extremely narcissistic act that violates 1 Corinthians 7:3-4. Here we are that a woman has sexual authority over her husband's body and vice versa. This is an invariable condition of marriage, that the husband surrenders the power of his own body, and gives it up to his wife. How could he afterwards disconnect himself from his wife, as if he were free? Same goes for the wife. Sex must not involve more than two people but neither may it involve less than two people. #2 - MASTURBATION INVOLVES A SINGLE SEX Second, masturbation is sinful because it involves a single sex. The principle of a male receiving sexual pleasure from a male (or female from a female) being sinful is clearly laid out in Scripture. Similar to the first reason and how it involves a single individual; when a man decides to “self pleasure” he is receiving pleasure from his own body, which again violates 1 Corinthians 7:3-5