Statistics Don't Lie...

[andkon]

[JimF]

Of course, part of the humor here is that some contemporary
condemnations of (male) masturbation -- particularly from the
religious right -- claim that it is indeed either itself a form of
homosexuality or else that it is a "gateway drug" leading to homosexuality.

(E.g.,
http://www.quotes-watchtower.co.uk/masturbation.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/21/mark-driscoll-masturbation_n_1023743.html )

Many years ago, a straight acquaintance of mine said to me.
"You know, I **love** my cock.  When I'm enjoying my own penis,
I can **almost** get what it is that gay guys like about having
sex with other guys.  (I didn't try to explain to him that being gay
usually involves more than just a fascination with another guy's dick,
that it's more often an attraction to a whole person, including an
element of emotional attachment, or even romantic love.)

[andkon]

Yeah, the religious aren't as dumb as they're made out to be.  My favorite quote from a religious person about same-sex sex being too tempting:

If you isolate sexuality as something solely for one's own personal amusement, and all you want is the most satisfying orgasm you can get – and that is what homosexuality seems to be – then homosexuality seems too powerful to resist. The evidence is that men do a better job on men and women on women, if all you are looking for is orgasm… It's pure sexuality. It's almost like pure heroin. It's such a rush… Marital sex tends toward the boring end. Generally, it doesn't deliver the kind of sheer sexual pleasure that homosexual sex does.

It's in Chapter 11: http://grero.com/#_Toc347564553