Incidentally, the masturbation that often accompanies the viewing of pornographic images is also a sin. I mention this because people sometimes claim that masturbation is not forbidden in the Bible. It is true that masturbation is never explicitly mentioned. Neither is pornography, for that matter, or many other specific kinds of sexual sin. Instead, the Bible is content to address sexual sin in general terms, outlawing any sexual activity outside the union of husband and wife.
Sex is for sharing.
But by turning sexual gratification back upon the self, masturbation is perhaps the most intense form of self-worship imaginable. Christians who are in bondage to sexual sin often hope to find a quick fix for their addiction. There are no quick fixes. If there were, you probably would have discovered one by now. The reason you haven t is because sexual sin goes down to the very deepest levels of the sinful nature.