Is Masturbation in itself bad?

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Thank you all for this advice. I’ll keep this all in mind bow.

Many will also tell you that going cold turkey isn’t the best approach and I agree, but I don’t believe keeping masturbation helps, it’s a loop hole. What I suggest is stay off of it all for as long as possible. And if you don’t relapse, yay! But if you do, make it a point to yourself to last at least as long as you did (or if ur just starting or Maybe only lasted a day, give yourself like a week minimum) and if by the end of that period you feel like you can keep going, wonderful! There’s a new goal now

You’re not wrong but right now your brain connects porn and masturbation too closely. Trust me when I say I’ve heard it from myself a million times, and from people I know. If you allow yourself to masturbate you will eventually end up right back to porn. Left yourself come off the highs of the dopamine release before you even think about masturbation again (wait the 90 days). And for anyone reading this who may disagree: - chances are your “imagination” is still thinking of porn - you’ve used porn and masturbation together so long that it’s one in the same. The same way that someone were to play a sound and then feed you constantly, eventually you’d get hungry when you hear the sound. If you watch porn, you’ve eventually masturbate and vice versa until the need for porn is completely out of your system. You may feel fine about it now while you’re still conscious and in control, but think back about how many times you’ve tried to stop and it felt like an uncontrolled decision when you relapsed. You don’t see drug or alcohol addicts recovering by only sitting in a bar but not drinking

So technically by doing so you’re feeding into the craving more even if it’s a different way. Biblically yeah it’s bad since it’s sin