/lit/ - Literature

>>18547815
>Why does the almighty creator of all things care
Because He loves you infinitely, and desires the ultimate good for you
>if I masturbate?
Because this is not something which will lead you to the ultimate good, but is only abusing a gift from Him to achieve a momentary pleasure.
The name of the game is "frustrating teleological ends". Why is it good to give somebody opium after a surgery, but bad to do opium in your bed? Because the painkiller has a proper end to be used for - namely, when one is in physical pain - but used outside of that end, it becomes a disordered and harmful desire. Similarly, the ends of the reproductive act are reproduction (hence ejaculation on climax) and union/pair-bonding (hence the high levels of oxytocin and pleasure during sex). If one of these ends are frustrated, the act has become disordered - and in the case of masturbation, both of these ends are frustrated. This makes it an inherently disordered activity which is contrary to the purpose of your penis, and just like using opiates wrong, soon becomes a pathology. Masturbation soon becomes something which must be done chronically, on a regular basis, and like any dopaminergic desire, the satisfaction from each act becomes less satisfying the more it is repeated. Thus, for the same reason opiates are good in one way (used as medicine) but bad in another (abused for pleasure, leading to addiction), so too is sexual pleasure from the penis good in one way (used as a unitive act of love, open to reproduction [obviously within a marriage]), and bad in another (abused for pleasure, leading to addiction).