MASTURBATION

“For me the real evil of masturbation would be that is takes an appetite which, in lawful use, leads an individual out of himself to complete (and correct) his own personality in that of another (and finally in children and even grandchildren) and turns it back; sends the man back into the prison of himself, there to keep a harem of imaginary brides. And his harem, once admitted, works against his ever getting out and really uniting with a real woman” (C. S. Lewis, unpublished letter, March 6, 1956).853