Disclaimer: Hope you don't take this as me picking on you ... I'm just very interested in this fragment of the discussion.
Continued:
So when does one determine if the spanking is working? If one only spanks the child 1x a week? 1x a month? or if the child eventually never has to be spanked again? Same with masturbation.
What is a sign that masturbation is "working"? If it's meant to keep one from having sex, then isn't it "working" for Sarah?
.... Or do we know that masturbation is "working" when it gets to a point that we never have to do it again
erplexed? (I'm applying the spanking analogy here and assuming that spanking works if it never has to be done again.)
Basically, what I'm getting at is 1) how does one define "working", 2) how frequent is too frequent, and 3) what's wrong with running to
prayer time or time with God as an alternative "method"?