“Masturbation is a gift from SATAN.” A youth director told this to a group of us when I was a teenager. I came to believe that this was true. However, all the do’s and don’t’s dreamed up by people from the Victorian era up to now have made this intimate act a taboo. In truth, the Bible mentions nothing about whether wanking is right or wrong. The blurb about Onan is not about masturbation, and the sexual part wasn’t the problem either. He refused to have a kid as he was compelled by Jewish law to do so. No one of the hundreds of Jewish laws say that it is wrong to pleasure yourself. Jesus never said that jerking off was a sin, and only SATAN verbalized it's pleasures as men,