Posted by:
LeavingDelusion
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Date: February 09, 2016 02:58PM
I have a TBM colleague—early 30s, RM, EQP, temple-married, six kids—who is facing a terrible moral conundrum. Seems that he and his wife have been trying “forever” to have another child. Their youngest just turned two years old and they are sure that there is one more soul in heaven waiting to join their family. So—sex-aplenty, but no pregnancy.
They decide to seek medical advice. Doctor says he needs to check my colleague’s sperm count. Nurse gives him a small plastic cup and sends him into a room with a stash of “pornography.” As he tells the story, my colleague spends 15 minutes in the room before returning—his cup empty—to the nurse. Turns out, he just couldn’t force himself to indulge in pornography nor allow himself to masturbate, both actions being serious sins; you know, gateways to full-blown sex addiction.
So now he’s suffering this untenable guilt because he sees no way to do what God wants. To get his sperm count checked, he needs to masturbate into a cup while looking at pictures of naked women who are not his wife, an act that would compromise long-held principles. But maintaining his principles might mean denying that seventh soul a place in his family. Isn’t that an even greater sin? What’s a good Mormon boy to do?
Somehow I managed not to laugh. I’d never before realized I had such self-control.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/09/2016 07:26PM by Susan I/S.