This month’s issue of SpiritLed Woman, a glossy Christian woman’s magazine that’s getting better and more interesting, has a piece on marital relations that gave me pause. In it, the writer encourages married women to refrain from masturbating. While alone, that is. I guess. Hmmmm. I’m actually going to turn this one over to you guys. What do you think? This Beliefnet round-up on where the various religious traditions stand on the subject of self-stimulation will also fuel your interest. Only Buddhists and liberal Protestants come out in favor.

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