Masturbation. Is this a sin?

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Is it considered a sin if one masturbates simply to relieve pressure and prevent any possible lustful or sinful thoughts from occurring if one is trying to break the habit but it gets to the point where it is actually painful or when someone can’t stop thinking about it and it persists if not released?
 
Yes, that is still sinful.

God may want you to learn to deal with temptations in a healthy way and masturbating is not a healthy way to deal with them.

My advice is to not fight the thoughts, but just recognize them, accept them, and gently redirect yourself to something else. If that doesn’t work, say Hail Mary’s until the temptation passes. If it takes hours, then spend hours saying Hail Mary’s.

Masturbating to relieve lustful thoughts is like committing theft to relieve envious thoughts. You’ve replaced a sin with an even bigger one.

Also you will create the habit of masturbating to deal with those thoughts. Your body will learn that certain thoughts lead to dopamine release and sexual pleasure so it will send you those thoughts even more often, because it wants the rush and high associated sexual release.
 
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I’ve also been told that if one is not aware it is a sin, then it is not considered a sin. Is that true?
 
Ignorance can reduce culpability. If someone truly did not know something was wrong, and had no reasonable way of finding out that it was wrong, then it is possible they would not have any culpability for a particular sin.

A person has a duty to search for Truth, so if there was a reasonable way for them to find out that it was a sin but they were too lazy to go look, then they might still have some culpability.

It is impossible for anyone outside the situation to know to what extent a person is culpable of any given sin, but generally speaking, a sin is a sin.
 
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Thank you very much 🙂 I hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and may God bless you
 
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