I agree.Apart from the defience of Gd by Adam and Eve, Masturbation is the oldest sin listed in the bible. A man named Onan was having intercourse with his wife (?) and practiced coitus interuptus and “spilled his seed on the ground”, for which Gd struck him dead.
Ever since, masturbation has been considered “the sin of Onan” or Onanism.
How that could possibly equate with ice cream or other so-called pleasures absolutely boggles the imagination!
If you are going to debate something, be serious and spare us from such trivial sophomoric idiocies!
Like it or not, there is absolutely no excuse for masturbation, and all the excuses about raging adolescent hormones and “its normal because everyone does it” are nothing more than cop-outs that have no basis in morality.
G*d and Mother Church expects us to have a little more gumption and fortitude than that.
Food/drink can be consumed for pleasure. And sex is pleasurable as well. Both are to be pleasurable in their proper context. Masturbation and gluttony are totally different though.
Masturbation is ALWAYS a mortal sin…gluttony is not necessarily always mortal.
This is not a particularly good comparison and does seem like an interesting way to merely justify an unacceptable sin.