The Boys' Hand Book of Masturbation

It's sad that some boys will endure a lifetime of neurotic sexuality because certain religious fanatics instill guilt and shame in them for what is a near universal and perfectly normal habit for mammals - i.e. masturbation. Repression of natural urges due to hormonal surges is not good when those urges would otherwise be directed toward, for example, getting a girl pregnant or engaging is risky behaviors which might lead to STDs. Masturbation is safe, it harms nobody (least of all the masturbator) and it allows the adolescent to explore the pleasurable gift of sexual feeling at their own pace, without the pressure that sex with others might entail. Those living in their little religious bubbles may think their precious offspring can be protected from four letter words and strong desires, but they are frankly delusional. Too bad a copy of this book isn't in every Sunday School as well as every family home. A wonderful book!

I must HAND it to the Author. This is HANDS down the best book about masturbating that I could get my HANDS on! To be able to GRASP the theory in such a manner is SATISFYING on so many levels. I will always keep this book and the knowledge contained within HANDY!Should the need ever arise, I will have the situation in HAND!

Even for those who may feel that masturbation could be a way to keep one’s body under control, I still cannot recommend this book as being of any benefit to Christian fathers in talking to their sons for several reasons, the first of which is that rather than simply being a discussion of the subject, it actively promotes masturbation. Also, the author implies that drinking beer and smoking marijuana are harmless pleasures (like masturbating). In addition, he makes fun of sincere religious objections to masturbation and generally criticizes all conservative views of sexuality.Furthermore, there is a lot of what is usually considered vulgar language, including frequent usage of the “f” word, along with some crude jokes and coarse cartoons. And finally, the book seems to advocate, or encourage, or at least condone such things as accepting homosexuality, mutual masturbation with friends, sexual fantasy while masturbating, looking at pornography, premarital sex, and even anal intercourse. In fact, the whole underlying worldview of the book is rank relativism, that practically anything goes. The author asks, “Why do most people seek a life of absolutes and exacts?…There is no normal!” For Bible believers, this is simply not true.Then too, he comes across as very vocally anti-circumcision, although he admits that this is simply his opinion. Now, I am totally neutral on circumcision. The New Testament does not demand circumcision but says that today it makes absolutely no difference to God. However, the facts that under the Old Testament God commanded Hebrew boys to be circumcised, and that Jesus Christ Himself was circumcised (Luke 2:21), must mean that being circumcised cannot be the moral and ethical evil that modern anti-circumcision zealots often claim. So far as masturbation itself is concerned, I might say, “Let each be fully convinced in his own mind” (Romans 14:5). But this book is not something that I would endorse.