From taboo to “healthy” to hijacked
For most of history, self-stimulation and casual lust were seen as something dangerous for body and soul. In the last 100 years, a different story was engineered: “it’s harmless, it’s medicine, everyone does it.”
Early sex researchers, psychoanalysis, and later the “sexual revolution” worked together with industry, media, and advertising. What began as challenging shame slowly turned into a culture that treats constant stimulation as normal – even virtuous.
Today, you are surrounded by hyper-sexual images, porn in your pocket, and a narrative that says “any restraint is repressed, unhealthy, or old-fashioned.” That story is not neutral – it is profitable.
What’s really at stake?
- Mental health: higher anxiety, depression, brain fog, loneliness.
- Relationships: distance from real partners, unrealistic expectations, betrayal.
- Masculinity & femininity: drained drive, warped sense of self, objectification.
- Spiritual life: guilt, numbness in worship, broken connection with the Divine.