Assertion: masturbation | /r/CapableOf | pertain to the sin of uncleanness
Facets:
value: without any copulation
type: OTHER
value: for the sake of venereal pleasure
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Thomas Aquinas, a popular Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church, writes that masturbation is an "unnatural vice," which is a species of lust like bestiality, sodomy, and pederasty, and that "by procuring pollution [i.e., ejaculation apart from intercourse], without any copulation, for the sake of venereal pleasure … pertains to the sin of 'uncleanness' which some call 'effeminacy'