Hey, friend, before we jump in today, I just want to let you know that this is your last chance to join an online book study with us this winter.

We still have some spots available in these groups for women, whether you're married or single.

We have a group for moms.

And we have a group for couples that will be going through God's sex and your marriage.

Other groups will be going through books like surrendered

sexuality, finding the hero and your husband, and a new updated version of sex and the single girl

that I'm currently working on. So that would be fun for you to actually give me feedback as I'm rewriting.

Each of these studies is going to include a weekly Zoom meeting with your trained

volunteer leader, access to an online discussion group, and a live Q&A with me at the end of the

study. So just go to Authenticemacy.com and look for our online book studies, and we'll drop that

in the show notes as well. Okay, let's head to the coffee shop for this week's

job with Julie. Welcome to Java with Julie. I am Julie Slattery, and I'm so glad you join me for

today's conversation. This podcast is an outreach of authentic intimacy, which is a ministry

dedicated to helping you make sense of God

and sexuality. And that is certainly what we're going to be doing today. Today's episode is one of

those that might make you quickly turn down the volume and check and make sure no one else is in

the room, because we're going to be talking about whether or not masturbation is okay.

Now, in over 15 years of speaking on sexuality, this is still one of the most popular questions

I get, and I get it from people who are single, married, and widowed.

In fact, I think we are the number one search result you get if you type that into your

web browser. So apparently I've become known

for addressing this topic. This is a question that we unfortunately usually tend to wrestle with in

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