All this talk of HIV, an awful condition if you test positive yet even on this thread, total ignorance of sexual health risks. Chlamydia has the awful reputation of sounding like a Shakespearian character. Yet it, together with the majority cause for cervical cancer is the largest risk to the largest numbers.

Incidentally, both affect more women than men so don't tend to be put forward as God's retribution on perversion. After all, isn't there something about using a whore being preferable to having a hand crank?

Presumably the bible doesn't have the answers after all. If it advocated masturbation rather than condemning it, priests might just be in tune with good healthy advice. (It lowers risk of prostate cancer for that matter.)

Take Capt Pickard up to warp speed! You know it makes sense.