Hanners that's an amazing critique you provided about the history of sexuality that commenced in Judaism thought. Wow! Christians (especially Catholics) need to get over the IRRATIONAL guilt about masturbation. Yes even today masturbation in Catholic doctrine is considered evil and a sin! It is so wrong that christian thought denouces such an activity. It goes totally against human needs and at the end of the day who is getting hurt from masturbation? Answer that my devout Christians? Or Jews? Without a partner masturbation does wonders in alleving stress and also for men cleanses out the prostate gland and may even prevent getting prostate cancer later in life! In todays' society so many people still have hang-ups about sexuality in general.