I’m just questioning the idea that masturbation is to sex-starved people as food is to actually starving people.
(Course, that’s not exactly what you said either.)
To someone who deeply disdains human society, it probably is equivalent. Suppose that it were possible to soothe your hunger by just rubbing your stomach—how many people would do it and forgo food completely?
Actually, if I didn’t have to eat, I probably wouldn’t.
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I’m just questioning the idea that masturbation is to sex-starved people as food is to actually starving people.
(Course, that’s not exactly what you said either.)
To someone who deeply disdains human society, it probably is equivalent. Suppose that it were possible to soothe your hunger by just rubbing your stomach—how many people would do it and forgo food completely?
Actually, if I didn’t have to eat, I probably wouldn’t.