Masturbation Has “Victims” Because “Everybody Is Involved”
Everybody is involved—some as victims, others as co-perpetrators, and some as both.
In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 1 quote from 2015, from How to Exasperate Your Wife and Other Short Essays for Men, cited to the source.
This complex web involves lots of other people—your father, your mother, your brothers, your sisters, your friends, your foes—all of them connected in some mysterious way to that unruly creature in your loins. Fights come from lusts (Jas. 4:1), and lusts come from fights. Driven by lust, masturbation is not a solo act. Everybody is involved—some as victims, others as co-perpetrators, and some as both.