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From the Indie Scientology blog Possibly Helpful Advice:
Masturbating in Scientology: Aye, there’s the rub
http://possiblyhelpfuladvice.com/?p=16856
Excerpts:
Masturbating in Scientology: Aye, there’s the rub
http://possiblyhelpfuladvice.com/?p=16856
Excerpts:
Karen de la Carriere’s Surviving Scientology YouTube channel is hosting a video featuring ex-Sea Org member Chris Shelton. Karen and Chris discuss the criminalization of masturbation in Scientology, and how the practice is leveraged to keep Sea Org members subjugated as well as to extract hundreds of thousands of dollars from parishioners.
[video=youtube_share;mI7GXsOeEG4]http://youtu.be/mI7GXsOeEG4[/video]
There is, as Chris Shelton tells us in the video, a culture of “criminal masturbation” in the “church”. His explanation of what happens to OTs was very enlightening.
But Sea Org members are indoctrinated into knowing that masturbation is a crime against themselves, mankind, the universe, and most importantly, the Sea Org.
After all, you can’t work 100 hours a week if you’re rubbing one out every day, right?
And communal berthing is generally considered unusable for masturbation, so Sea Org members have to find secret rooms and closets in which to perform it. There’s additional problems from (at least with men) not having enough rags and paper towels and toilet tissue to clean up after oneself.
We’ve all heard the tales of insufficient toilet paper in Sea Org heads. Paper towels are largely nonexistent.
I didn’t realize that masturbation was such a problem until I was auditing Sea Org members in the SHSBC practical sections. The same phenomena occurred as is seen with the OTs.
Session time, and auditor time, for Sea Org members was consumed with getting off withholds about masturbation, when the poor student auditor is only trying to get his checksheet requirements for something like, say, a Scientology Drug Rundown.
In a very Scientological way, the criminalizing of masturbation comes from misapplication of a single paragraph in the book Handbook for Preclears:
The facsimiles of an individual can become considerably scrambled by masturbation. Practically all the ape family and Man masturbate. Masturbation is a prohibition result. It couldn’t drive anyone crazy. But it can make the individual pull old sex facsimiles into present time for self-stimulation and opens the door for him to desire facsimiles to be in present time.
After awhile he will be pulling pain facsimiles into present time.
Yes, there’s a question on HCO PL 22 MAY 1961THE ONLY VALID SECURITY CHECK about masturbation, but it’s only one of about 265 questions on that form.
The now-missing book Child Dianetics mentions masturbation as a problem, but only “excessive masturbation”.
And there’s an Expanded Dianetics C/S where LRH tells the auditor to handle masturbation, but only because the preclear had earlier originated it was something he wanted handled.
My conclusion is that the focus on masturbation in the Sea Org in particular and Scientology in general is that it’s something called “executive C/Sing”…an executive trying to solve organizational problems by having his own case run on other people.
I wonder, aloud, who that executive might be?
That question clarifies when as a student auditor you learn that if the Sea Org member’s masturbation is discovered, it will be used to ridicule him in front of other Sea Org members.
I wonder, aloud, who would be so amoral as to do such a thing?