Don't you think, Kurgan, that Masturbation is an even greater, graver, grievouser, objectively-eviller sin than mere child abuse? And since Jesus wrote in the gospels that we should not hesitate to cut off such Offending Appendages, should not this holy excision be a condition for "validly receiving the sacrament of atonement," as a very orthodox commenter here has said? All these endless "hearings" are keeping the Church from addressing Self-Abuse, a much more widespread and grave problem. We lose souls every hour to the fires below and no one is heeding the Doctrines.