Look God, No Hands - Dirty Girls Ministries is on a crusade against female masturbation

[BridgeTheGap]

In a small, plainly decorated room in Lenexa, Kansas, 26-year-old Crystal Renaud logs on to a free video-chat site. She sits at her desk and peers over her black-rimmed glasses, which reflect the dull blue glare of the computer monitor. Meanwhile, in homes scattered around the United States, five other women are staring into their webcams as well. As their faces pop up around Renaud on all their screens, they begin the 6th week of a 12-week pornography addiction recovery group for women called No Stones.

“Does anyone want to share a story where they felt they had some sort of personality disorder? Or something related?” Renaud asks, before her voice temporarily cuts out and the screen freezes. The group is having technical issues tonight. “For me, I found myself really clinging to certain personality types, those opposite of my dad,” she says when she’s back on. The assignment for this week, she tells the women, is to write down their sexual histories. “I know it’s overwhelming, but don’t be defeated by this,” she says. “There’s hope. This is truth. Even though it’s hard and painful, the truth is what sets you free.”

The No Stones recovery group is part of an organization called Dirty Girls Ministries that Renaud launched in 2009 after suffering from her own self-described pornography addiction. She says she wanted to help other women recover from their X-rated fixations by connecting with them online and holding meetings at her local church. But her use of the terms porn and addiction may be misleading. The growing group of 100-plus members who participate in the forums say that they masturbate or view porn—which they define as including erotica and romance novels—twice a week or less. For most of us, that would hardly be considered excessive. But to Renaud, it indicates an epidemic of addiction, one that can be treated by helping women stay “clean” of masturbation.

Read more: http://www.utne.com/Mind-Body/Dirty-Girls-Ministries-Evil-Female-Masturbation.aspx#ixzz1ZB0EQetV

[HopeHoops]

1. There's nothing wrong with that - as long as it is on a free porn site.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Let's dispassionately look at the evidence.

[woodsprite]

3. Must be friends with Christine O'Donnell. n/t

[OneGrassRoot]

6. What you said. :) n/t

[rurallib]

4. sounds like someone found a way to fleece some sheep.

[groovedaddy]

5. "Masturbation is sex with someone I love." Woody Allen n.t

[ZombieHorde]

8. I love Woody Allen. nt

[Gregorian]

12. That line is genius. If not a tad self centered.

Good old Woody Allen.

[aquart]

7. Scared of her fantasies, is she?

[Kalidurga]

11. Seems to be a very unhealthy mindset

This is one of the dangers of religion that is rarely discussed.

[ZombieHorde]

9. Seems like the problem is their religion, not their masturbation.

Their religion is what is making them feel bad.

[MilesColtrane]

10. If going to church is the price I have to pay for meeting sexually obsessed women, I'll just...

have to suck it up and get out my bible.

[Iggo]

17. They sell those at the store, right?

Bibles, I mean.

[msongs]

13. how many of these Women" are actually men transcribing the chat for a porn novel? nt

[Iggo]

18. 65%. (n/t)

[ET Awful]

14. ". . . they report feeling tainted, undesirable, and perverted."

I wonder if that had anything to do with their parents and church telling them they were tainted, undesirable and perverted.

[Goblinmonger]

20. "taint" hehehe

Yeah, I'm 12.

[tech5270]

15. Isn't it sort of hard to masturbate no hands? n/t

[Warren Stupidity]

16. where exactly in the bible does it forbid female masturbation?

I know guys aren't allowed to spill any of that precious seed except inside a vagina, but gals? Where is that prohibition?

[Deep13]

19. Finally, an ineffectual solution to a non-problem! nt

[MisterP]

21. reminds me of the superprudish, purse-lipped Austrian matrons and caregivers in Freud

striving to smack the "naughty" habits like constantly sucking on pacifiers out of children from Cuxhaven to Sibiu
or like Francis Dolarhyde's grandmother or Carrie's mom