Look God, No Hands - Dirty Girls Ministries is on a crusade against female masturbation

In a small, plainly decorated room in Lenexa, Kansas, 26-year-old Crystal Renaud logs on to a free video-chat site. She sits at her desk and peers over her black-rimmed glasses, which reflect the dull blue glare of the computer monitor. Meanwhile, in homes scattered around the United States, five other women are staring into their webcams as well. As their faces pop up around Renaud on all their screens, they begin the 6th week of a 12-week pornography addiction recovery group for women called No Stones.

“Does anyone want to share a story where they felt they had some sort of personality disorder? Or something related?” Renaud asks, before her voice temporarily cuts out and the screen freezes. The group is having technical issues tonight. “For me, I found myself really clinging to certain personality types, those opposite of my dad,” she says when she’s back on. The assignment for this week, she tells the women, is to write down their sexual histories. “I know it’s overwhelming, but don’t be defeated by this,” she says. “There’s hope. This is truth. Even though it’s hard and painful, the truth is what sets you free.”

The No Stones recovery group is part of an organization called Dirty Girls Ministries that Renaud launched in 2009 after suffering from her own self-described pornography addiction. She says she wanted to help other women recover from their X-rated fixations by connecting with them online and holding meetings at her local church. But her use of the terms porn and addiction may be misleading. The growing group of 100-plus members who participate in the forums say that they masturbate or view porn—which they define as including erotica and romance novels—twice a week or less. For most of us, that would hardly be considered excessive. But to Renaud, it indicates an epidemic of addiction, one that can be treated by helping women stay “clean” of masturbation.

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Good old Woody Allen.

This is one of the dangers of religion that is rarely discussed.

Their religion is what is making them feel bad.

have to suck it up and get out my bible.

Bibles, I mean.

I wonder if that had anything to do with their parents and church telling them they were tainted, undesirable and perverted.

Yeah, I'm 12.

I know guys aren't allowed to spill any of that precious seed except inside a vagina, but gals? Where is that prohibition?

striving to smack the "naughty" habits like constantly sucking on pacifiers out of children from Cuxhaven to Sibiu
or like Francis Dolarhyde's grandmother or Carrie's mom