PAUL SNOW is 40 and happily married, but he’s still scared to touch himself.

Snow (not his real name), a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, has battled his urge to masturbate to porn since he hit puberty. In households outside of the Mormon Belt, young Snow might have been allowed to succumb to his body’s need for sweet release.

But this is the Mormon Church. It’s a religion that condemns masturbation as unchaste. It’s a religion whose clergy view pornography as evil, and as addictive as heroin. It’s a religion whose 13th president, Ezra Taft Benson, famously said, “The Book of Mormon places unchastity next to murder.”

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