Does the Bible Actually Condemn Masturbation? (Dan McClellan and Dan Beecher; Data Over Dogma podcast on YouTube)
Does the Bible say anything at all about masturbation? Short answer: no — and this episode's Data After Dark digs into why. We take on Onan (not your guy), Matthew 5:30, the "wasting seed" argument, and the crucial difference between ritual impurity and sin, before tracing how a whole lot of Greco-Roman philosophy — not ancient Israelite thought — shaped the shame so many of us grew up with.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:01 Data After Dark
1:44 Onan & Genesis 38
3:18 The Levirate Duty
4:16 "Cut Off Your Hand"
6:35 Prohibited Unions
8:36 The Wasted-Seed Argument
9:05 Impurity vs. Sin
12:02 Ancient Ideas About Semen
13:15 "Pearls Before Swine"?
16:05 She Contributes Half
18:41 But... Song of Songs
18:59 Greco-Roman Influence
21:36 Purity as Boundary Marker
24:25 The Verdict
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