There are plenty of fundamentalist Christians about. Quite a lot of them swan around in cassocks or other such impractical vestments, eschew sex and marriage (at least officially ;-) )and preach to the world about the "evils" of masturbation/contraception/sex before marriage/the right of women to choose whether or not to have abortions. Oddly, most of the more influential of these happen to be men. Had it not been for increased knowledge and scientific advance, I'm certain that they'd still be propagating the message that wanking would not only consign you to hellfire but would also make you blind and give you hairy palms.

Steve (short-sighted and, well, wanna shake hands? :-D )