Reading Your Male by Mary Farrar

Author:Mary Farrar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Women's Bible Study
ISBN: 978-1-4347-6871-1
Publisher: David C Cook
Published: 2009-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

A Hidden Provision

Many women are unaware of a hidden provision by God. There is a natural release that occurs during sleep (called “wet dreams”) that enables men’s semen to discharge. A man who refuses to feed on sexual images and masturbate (which feeds his sex drive) will find that these natural releases not only occur, but in time they actually occur on a far less frequent basis. While masturbation is natural in the very early development of a boy, no mature man needs to masturbate, whether married or unmarried. This comes, by the way, from very wise and sexually healthy men, some of whom have at one time gone the route of permissiveness and come out the other side.

It may surprise you to know that St. Augustine actually wrote about this in the fourth century. Augustine’s father was a pagan drunkard, while his mother was a godly believer. She taught her son the Scriptures in his early years, and when he went astray at age sixteen, she did not cease praying for him until he came to Christ many years later.

His early years as a young man were characterized by a passionate pursuit of every form of hedonistic pleasure; he prided himself in being first at everything—including evil. He drank, had sex, hung out with the biggest rabble-rousers of the town, all the while excelling as a literary scholar and brilliant mind. Then he began to live with a woman who bore him an illegitimate son (who died at a young age), and she remained his concubine for fifteen long years.22 Eventually he abandoned the woman, and in an attempt to overcome his sexual sin, became engaged to marry a woman of repute. But before the marriage took place, he had already taken up with another woman.23 His internal guilt and hopelessness only mounted, and the marriage never took place.

Then Augustine underwent a life-altering experience in which he was converted and transformed in his heart. He writes prolifically of this in his own autobiography, The Confessions—written in the style of a conversation between himself and God. There he writes of his postconversion commitment to abstinence, reserving sex for marriage only. But he writes of how in his sleep, against his conscious will, dream-memories would rush into his mind and he would experience sleep-orgasm. He struggled over this until he realized that this involuntary nocturnal emission was actually a gift from God.

Now this is good stuff. Augustine writes,

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