.SOURCE NOTE: Unless otherwise noted all information comes from the Wikipedia article: "Religious views on masturbation"
Also note that, although "There is no explicit claim in the Bible that masturbation is sinful," many denominations hold that it is.
Abrahamic Religions
Roman Catholicism
"Today, Roman Catholic (including Eastern Catholic), Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox consider masturbation to be a sin."
Lutheranism:
"Luther saw masturbation as a sin more terrible than heterosexual rape since such rape was considered to be "in accordance with nature", while masturbation was "unnatural".
"The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Metropolitan Chicago Synod believes that masturbation is sinful"
"The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod has said. . . . “Masturbation is self-stimulation to some form of arousal and climax. God gave sex as a gift and a blessing to human beings for marriage with a life-long partner of the opposite sex. Self-stimulation is a corruption of God’s gift and blessing of sex"
"The sexually-liberal Lutheran Church of Sweden argues that masturbation is not a sin"
Anglicanism
"The Church of England does not have a position on whether masturbation is a sin or not."
Methodism
"The United Methodist Church does not have an official position on masturbation"
Pentecostalism
" the Bible does not explicitly mention that masturbation is a sin."
Anabaptists
"A 2011 article in Canadian Mennonite magazine notes that . . .Finding pleasure in our own God-given bodies can be good...[but]if it draws someone away from God, then for God's sake, don't do it."
Baptists
". . . .masturbation "goes against the design of God" and that "God designed sex to be relational; masturbation is lustful".
Quakers
"In 1960, the British Friends Home Service published a pamphlet on marriage that was read and approved on both sides of the Atlantic that stated that "Masturbation as a child is healthy, but not as an adult." However, four years later, in 1964, the Quaker physician, Dr. Mary Calderone, argued for the emerging view that masturbation was normal."
Inter-denominational
"The Australian non-denominational Christian teen sex education website, "Boys Under Attack", argues that masturbation is not a sin,
"Journalists for Ekklesia, a Nigerian non-denominational magazine, argue that masturbation is a sin."
"In the 1940s, Evangelical sex advice books advised against masturbation, considering it a very serious sin"
Jehovah's Witnesses
"The Jehovah's Witnesses teach that masturbation is a habit that is a "form of uncleanness", one that "fosters attitudes that can be mentally corrupting".
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
"During regular worthiness interviews LDS adherents—including teenagers—are required to confess of any sexual sins like masturbation to church leaders in order to be deemed worthy to participate in the sacrament and temple rites."
Seventh Day Adventists
"Ellen G. White, one of the founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, . . . said that masturbation was the cause of many sicknesses in adults from cancer to lung disease. White even stated that masturbation claimed many sinners' lives prematurely."
Islam
"In certain points in history, masturbation has also been considered among the great sins, . . . .In Hanafi scholarship, a wife masturbating her husband is meanwhile disliked, but not prohibited, meaning it would be preferable not to do so but doing so will not incur sin
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Judaism
"Maimonides stated that the Tanakh does not explicitly prohibit masturbation."
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Non-Abrahamic Religions
Hinduism
"There are no references in Hindu religious texts to suggest that masturbation itself desecrates sexual purity. For those who are dedicated to chastity, this sin is absolutely minor, and can be absolved either by taking a bath, or by worshiping the Sun, or by saying three prayers."
Buddhism
"Masturbation is explicitly not characterised as sexual misconduct in the mahāyāna Upāsakaśīla sūtra:"
Zoroastrianism
"The Zoroastrian holy book Avesta, with its stress on physical cleanliness, lists voluntary masturbation among the unpardonable sins that one can commit."
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