analog

That was meant as a cause/effect type thing... meaning if you were sick, you'd take medicine- if you broke an arm, you'd wear a cast so it could heal. You've got a backup of sperm, you need to release it.

So, you're saying that masturbation is immoral?

Apart from that, you're overriding what is now essentially a medical necessity because you consider a similar act to be immoral?

Here's a better question- no doubt you'd consider procreation to be natural and moral- but what about just going out and having sex with some random chick? It's all in the context. I'm sure you'd say that intercourse for procreation and random sex were not quite the same thing, especially from a morality standpoint- so why would this be any different?

Your doctor isn't telling you to objectify women or do anything that would compromise your personal beliefs- he's telling you to perform a procedure because you have a real, medical problem whose solution is manual stimulation of the penis to achieve the release of sperm. Whether you believe "masturbation" to be immoral or unnatural is besides the point- this is about a medical need, not about self-pleasure.

As for whether or not it's natural, that's neither here nor there right now. Our opinion on whether or not it's natural is totally beside the point at the moment- you have a medical problem that you need to fix, or it will only get worse. Your body naturally needs to rid itself of built-up levels of sperm, particularly in a young adult (because the hormones are going crazy and sperm is getting produced at a pretty good rate).

So, believe what you like about morality, but look at it as what it is- a medical procedure to treat a medical problem.

- analog.