"I started masturbation when I was about 12. My want for that feeling you get during sex or masturbation completely clouded my every thought and everything I did was to impress women in to sleeping with me. I would masturbate over things I saw, people I knew. If someone gave me an inch then in my mind I would take 10,000 miles! The biggest problem was that I realised my partner wasn’t one of these mental images that I was lusting over. She wasn’t going to give me the things my mind and flesh longed for, and this eventually started hurting our relationship, whenever I had masturbated I would be distant, I wouldn’t communicate well, I would be very stressed about silly things, and it made me want to push our boundaries. I eventually confessed my problem to her, and we got help from our youth pastors, I prayed so much that day and ever since, I’ve never struggled with it."

"People say that you should satisfy your natural curiosity and desires – they are wrong. By masturbating you are just fuelling them and what for? A short momentary high that will then leave you feeling dirty, guilty and embarrassed because satisfying yourself is… weird?

As its something so short and temporary the chemicals your body release are addictive making you want more. I think that by masturbating you are taking part of your purity as you make your life about that moment high, making sex become something selfish all about that pleasure for you when its about connecting with the person you love."