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Depends on your faith 8).
In most Christian traditions, though, the prohibition on masturbation is based around a misreading of the story of Onan, where the specific sin of masturbating in order to avoid impregnating is dead brother's wife (as was the requirement of Jewish law at the time) has been generalised into a prohibition of all masturbation - quite a faulty conclusion.
Of course, as a Catholic, you're bound by the Church's dogma on the matter, so if you want to be an observant Catholic, you're going to have to stop bringing yourself to orgasm.
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