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  • #1

    How do you feel about this LDS therapist's advice?

    http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mormont...hat-to-do.html

    I would suspect there would be those who would see her advice as contrary to the Gospel and others who would be perfectly fine with it. Just curious as to what people here might think.
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  • #2
    I think her advice is sound, not just in this particular article but in others I read on the blog.

    Vibrators for the win!
    "You know, I was looking at your shirt and your scarf and I was thinking that if you had leaned over, I could have seen everything." ~Trial Ad Judge

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    • #3
      that's a pretty awesome column. some of the comments are golden.
      Dio perdona tante cose per un’opera di misericordia
      God forgives many things for an act of mercy
      Alessandro Manzoni

      Knock it off. This board has enough problems without a dose of middle-age lechery.

      pelagius

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      • #4
        Yes, I agree -- the comments are pretty fantastic. Especially Beth, whom I imagine to be definitely somebody I would feel gross about hearing talk about sex.
        "I'm anti, can't no government handle a commando / Your man don't want it, Trump's a bitch! I'll make his whole brand go under,"

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Commando View Post
          Yes, I agree -- the comments are pretty fantastic. Especially Beth, whom I imagine to be definitely somebody I would feel gross about hearing talk about sex.
          Yes, Beth seems a bit on the strict side, doesn't she? However, her comment about sex being there to create unity and intimacy between partners, while all romantic and such, misses the biological function of procreation. Perhaps she does not realize that by leaving this part out she would actually have been considered quite the Humanist by not only LDS people less than a century ago but the majority of Protestants and Catholics of that era. Then again, in the 19th Century women would often have a doctor (male or female) masturbate them to climax as it was a means to treat depression and "hysteria." So in one sense those people back one hundred years ago seems unconcerned about the whole aspect of masturbation as a stress reliever but were quite conservative on the whole "be fruitful, multiply and replenish the earth" concept. Nothing wrong with that I suppose since the more sex one has the more fertile they will become. Oh, and in fairness that era was not without its rather strange ones. Look up why Kellogg created and promoted corn flakes. First time I heard that one from a professor I thought he was joking.

          Why do you think the vibrator was created in the first place?

          http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m...echnology.html

          Corn flakes...

          http://psychcentral.com/lib/2007/do-...-masturbation/
          Last edited by edward777; 06-16-2012, 04:25 PM.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by pellegrino View Post
            that's a pretty awesome column. some of the comments are golden.
            Extramarital sexual experimentation including masterbation is something that needs to be taken care of with a priesthood holder.
            "You interns are like swallows. You shit all over my patients for six weeks and then fly off."

            "Don't be sorry, it's not your fault. It's my fault for overestimating your competence."

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            • #7
              I never liked corn flakes, anyway.
              If we disagree on something, it's because you're wrong.

              "Somebody needs to kill my trial attorney." — Last words of George Harris, executed in Missouri on Sept. 13, 2000.

              "Nothing is too good to be true, nothing is too good to last, nothing is too wonderful to happen." - Florence Scoville Shinn

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              • #8
                Originally posted by SoCalCoug View Post
                I never liked corn flakes, anyway.
                Me neither. They don't stay hard very long. Once they hit the milk they're all limp and soggy.
                What's to explain? It's a bunch of people, most of whom you've never met, who are just as likely to be homicidal maniacs as they are to be normal everyday people, with whom you share the minutiae of your everyday life. It's totally normal, and everyone would understand.
                -Teenage Dirtbag

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                • #9
                  It all sounds to me like an incredible troll.
                  "They're good. They've always been good" - David Shaw.

                  Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

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                  • #10
                    The advice given out by that therapist is going to be compiled and added as a new book in the PofGP. Modern scripture by our first female Prophet. Hopefully.

                    Edit: Full disclosure, I know Natasha and have the greatest respect for her. She is a scholar and a lady and honestly an all-around mensch.
                    Last edited by The Rambam; 06-17-2012, 08:58 AM.
                    A Mormon president could make a perfectly patriotic, competent, inspiring leader. But not Mitt Romney. He is a husked void. --David Javerbaum

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                    • #11
                      Her post on men having a"pornography problem" is pretty interesting too.

                      What is my role? My husband is addicted to pornography…

                      Pretty balanced response, IMO.
                      “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
                      ― W.H. Auden

                      "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
                      -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

                      "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
                      --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by marsupial View Post
                        Me neither. They don't stay hard very long. Once they hit the milk they're all limp and soggy.
                        You should try working a vibrator into your breakfast routine.

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                        • #13
                          I feel badly for this poor woman that she feels guilty and unworthy just because she found the sweet spot. Being married for 10+ years, she's probably into her 30s. That's a very long time to wait to finally enjoy sex.

                          I particularly liked this statement from the therapist, "The biggest enemy to a successful marital sex life is inappropriate shame." So very true.

                          From the comments section - Mastrobation is my favorite spelling yet.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by TalkyTina View Post

                            From the comments section - Mastrobation is my favorite spelling yet.
                            Why is that word so hard for people to spell? Masturbation. With a u, not an e. And yes, mastrobation was the best attempt yet.
                            What's to explain? It's a bunch of people, most of whom you've never met, who are just as likely to be homicidal maniacs as they are to be normal everyday people, with whom you share the minutiae of your everyday life. It's totally normal, and everyone would understand.
                            -Teenage Dirtbag

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                            • #15
                              Who in their right mind would EVER consider asking their bishop about this question? One of the commenters was 29 and single and mentioned her guilt about rubbing one out. Another commenter (who perhaps was married by age 21?) told her to discuss it with her bishop.

                              Were I to be a bishop, I would be extraordinarily uncomfortable with a 29 year old single woman discussing her vibrators with me. The very conversation is exciting to every male to some extent or another and would be highly inappropriate.

                              The whole proscription against masturbation in the church is unhealthy. I will teach my kids that it is normal and healthy, as long as it doesn't interfere with their lives to the point that school or work suffers, or relationships deteriorate, etc. And they absolutely, positively, under no conditions whatsoever, should they ever discuss this with a bishop. Ever. If they feel it is an issue, they can take it to God through prayer. The should not ever give the priesthood leadership this kind of personal information about themselves, as it will eventually be used as a weapon against them.

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