This woman is a 39 year old single Catholic. She has no right to preach abstinence if she's not still a virgin, in my view. And if she's single as the result of divorce, well, there goes the whole Catholic thing out the window, right?

OMG, guys! Has she never heard of mutual masturbation?

Sounds to me like she's got issues with Her Man having any idea what feels good... determined that he'll never learn from her that sex can be pleasant for him, and terrified that he'll dump her for his own hand if he actually realizes it on his own.

Sorta grok why she remains single and, presumably, untouched.

"You're going to be pleasing each other, and if he already knows what pleases him and he can please himself, then why am I in the picture?"

WTF?? Cuz a hand feels nothing like a woman, lady. Otherwise why would any man with a hand and a tube of lotion bother with a girlfriend. Anyway, even as a girl I find that statement pretty boneheaded.

where do some jerks get off ?

its all good

“The economic stimulus is masturbation”

This becomes the slogan of the 2010 GOP

GIRLS:
Life is all right in America

BOYS:
If you're all white in America

GIRLS
Here you are free and you have pride

BOYS
Long as you stay on your own side

GIRLS
Free to be anything you choose

BOYS
Free to wait tables and shine shoes

If she isn't proposing making masturbation illegal, I do not see the problem.

So she has unusual views on sex. Don't liberals want people to be free to have unusual views on sex?

Go on, everyone. Drink the Truthout Kool-Aid. As if everyone who cares about social and poltical ethics should also masturbate freely for good health. It's like red wine! Lowers cholesterol! Heightens libido! Give me a break. The framing of this story sickens me, especially since I've heard the personal stories of numerous sex offenders and how lust and masturbation led them to where they are. You buy into the the sex-positive spin, too blind to see how truly devastating the emotional and spiritual consequences are. Sex is good, yeah, and I'd say Catholics are a little bit more in the light about why it's good.

And shame on you for using this supposed scapegoat as a tool to attack the Tea Party. First of all, I'm sure 90% of all Tea Partiers masturbate and would laugh at O'Donnell's attempts to stop them. Second, you alienate true progressives who very much would like to stand with you in opposition to the Tea Party but get the cold shoulder due to your misguidedness.

Anyone who thinks a Christian position on masturbation is about prosecution and not about love is misguided. If you spent all the time you masturbated reading, maybe you'd have half a brain left to figure out why this article is a non-issue.

And now Hannity and Limbaugh will turn their bullhorns on her Democratic opposition. Let's see if stupidity, ignorance, and racism win the day in Delaware, and this Palin imposter becomes a Senator. Her candidacy is another reason all Democrats and Progressives need to vote on November 2. No excuses, unless you want a Rethuglican Senate and Congress spending the next two years trying to rescind Social Security and Medicare, or impeach Obama for being a Kenyan!

@Julian...

I'm sure 90% of all Tea Partiers masturbate"

For some reason, I agree.

Julian @5:01 - Do you not realize that TruthOut gets the majority of its articles from other publications?  This one was from The Media Consortium.  TruthOut provides us with stories we might not otherwise read because it would require pouring through more publications than is humanly possible to do on a daily basis.  The mainstream media (which is NOT in any way, shape or form liberal) abdicated its responsibility to keep us informed about what our government is doing after being bought out by corporate hacks.  I only trust media that is not funded by advertising revenues. 

 
I personally wouldn't vote for anyone who was stupid enough to voice such a ridiculous opinion in public or proposes any laws telling me what I can or can't do with my own body.  Masturbation is safe sex and it prevents people from going out and having unsafe sex or raping.  Maybe this is why the "Christians" have become anything but Christian these days -- they're pent up sexually, which tends to make folks mean.  Instead of worrying about what people do in privacy, which is no one's business, the Tea Partiers and the Christians should be spending their time investigating all the crap they're being spoon fed by the republican party on behalf of their corporate interests. 
 
FYI-the Tea Party is NOT a grassroots organization.  It was started by operatives of the Republican party, it is funded by corporate billionaires and its followers are easily led sheep who are allowing the wolves to lead them directly to the slaughterhouse.
 

@ OligarchyNot:

Just because someone airs public comments on why she believes masturbation is wrong (for good reason) doesn't mean that 14 years later she is now running for Delaware Senate for the specific reason of prohibiting masturbation.

Don't you see that the right wing has tried to attack many liberal politicians using the same fallacious logic?

I understand Truthout is independent, and the Tea Party is not. Kudos to Truthout. However it needs to understand if it gives voice to arrogant bias in this way it's no different than Glenn Beck.