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Are we as Christians to simply "put up with it", and leave it at that? What about people who never marry; are they doomed to a lifetime of tortured feelings and inner turmoil?
But it is another example of the right road being the hardest to traverse, if we all wanted easy answers we surely wouldn't hold to the Christian faith.
Obvioulsy making it a taboo subject does nothing but create a deeper problem and I like that here these topics can be discussed openly with a good amount of tolerance for all views, however while I understand your idea of focusing the energy on other things to avoid active lusting, I still fail to see that you could stop focusing on the thing you lust after and continue to succesfully masturbate, the act of masturabtion could not be completed unless the thing you are focused on aroused you, perhaps that is a matter of mental discipline and channelling emotional energy etc.. I'd have to look into that further to give an informed opinion, although I accept it may be possible.