In spite of the "self love"
act; the "lonely addiction" being very normal, natural
and harmless as practice, there are some refusing-focuses
that come totally against what doctors, psychologists and
the science, in general, think. One of these focuses, are
indeed, conservative families, that raise their children according
to some backward school of thought and ideas; they think that
masturbation is wrong; a dirty practice; an impure way of
exploring your body. People which grow in such conservative
environment don't develop their sexuality as it should be
developed.
The catholic religion, for example,
preaches that every act of nature practiced without aimed
ending is a sin. That includes masturbation, because their
doctrine explains that, according to God's laws, people can
have sex only to reproduce. This way, once masturbation is
all about pleasuring yourself, and there is not any kind of
reward (reproduction), it is, indeed, a sin. In contrast,
human beings have sexual needs. That is as normal as see or
breathe. Once people have thoughts, ideas and can rationally
think, they are able to explore their bodies, and that, obviously
result on a very good, relaxing, pleasurable thing: orgasm.
When people taste it, this sensation becomes very difficult
to forget. Religious people, differently, measured their lives
according to their beliefs and creeds, and if their ideas
of life are comfortable with this situation, it would be normal
and not so difficult to live without sex or masturbation.
It would be replaced by other things, like spiritualization
and soul-leveling.
It wouldn't be wrong to experiment what
your body can provide you, in spite of many religions claim
that it is wrong and impure. If Catholics think that this
kind of thing would be important for their lives, they must
keep open-minded to get along with their feelings and, if
necessary, talk to father, or something like that. The only
thing that is not possible to live with, are feelings of pain,
regret and shame. In fact, these feelings are sins that people
can commit to themselves; to their minds and bodies. And that
could have catastrophic ends.