Eran of Arcadia said:
If so, there is no problem with admitting that you have masturbated if you intend not to do so; if you don't believe, there is no point in even showing up.
Bu they are being made to feel guilty for something that is not wrong! Perfectly natural. Men masturbated before religion. Men maasturbated during religion, men have always masturbated. Beats rape and promiscuity any day of the week as far as morlaity is concerned.
And it's not liek a 13 year old can go, screw you and your religion mom, I wanna masturbate.

They can't just leave the church.
masturbation is as harmless as singing a song! You going to tell children to stop singing because it might hurt them in the afterlife. It is a ridiculous mental castration.
But it would be so embarrassing to admit to an old man as a 13 year old you masturbated. No matter how much love you felt in the church, it just would not happen. I bet that old priest knew half the boys who told him "no" were lying.
what a sick game.
I can understand the no premarital sex, as I believed it for a long time myself, but that includes another person, masturbation is a solo excercise, and I dare say, good practice. In terms of living here on earth, human amongst humans, masturbation is harmless, and healthy, and natural. All that other divine aspiration hoopla is not a good reason to deny one's humanity.
And I find it interesting in this discussion, you started with all these logical real world arguments, which I am sure have been explained to you by your elders, but as the conversation wore on, it became less and les about how humans treat eachother, and more and more about religion and tradition.
Which is the real crux, and fallacy of any religion, it starts out encouraging people to join, teaching of love, and kinship, and goodness, to make the world a better place, and then as the member starts to join deeper, it starts to infuse strange rituals and beliefs, which have lots of "logic" tied to them, that continues to claim these values of love, and kinship, and goodness, but when that logic is deconstructed, it becomes exposed for what it really is, a shill game.
There is no reasonable earthly reason for banning people from masturbating. It is a form of control, and nothing else. It is the passing of senseless traditions from father to son, mother to daughter. It is certainly NOT healthy, but yet it continues on, under all these covers of how it is for the better of society.
But the crux of it all comes down to faith. The whole core of logic of any mormon, indeed, any religious person, is not logic at all, but faith, and then all forms of "morality" and "logic" come from faith, which to the rest of the world, is quite useless.