Ok, I don't know whether this is the right place to ask this question because of the answers I got on my last post. I tried going on a male health thread on yahoo answers and quickly realized I would not get the answers I wanted. I'm looking for answers from Christians who believe in staying as pure as they can before marriage. No arguments please. Just answers. I don't want the answer "just jerk it off every night" or something. I could be dating someone within a year and I feel that God wants me to be pure. I still struggle with thoughts and masturbation. The thing I feel the worst about is masturbation. It makes me feel gross. And when I do it it only makes me more sexually aroused. Its something I wouldn't want her to know about. I just want to know techniques, anything, that help distract or keep us from falling into sexual temptations. I want to know what I can do when I am tempted to masturbate or I find myself thinking thoughts I shouldn't. I don't care if its normal, my goal is not to be normal, its to do what I feel is right.

Give it up for Lent? But I know what you mean. I know when I really am into a girl (don't make a joke about that now :P), I feel like I become a better person because of that

I heard a preacher one time say, "When you're tempted to masturbate, open up the Bible. It is physically impossible to get an erection while reading the book of Psalms."