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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon
and most importantly, not sinful.
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I would never say that pocket pool is permissible or condoned on a mission. But I think it is frequent enough, and generally limited to bathroom time. On my mission, it was common practice for missionaries to time each other's showers and bang on the door when "time was up."
Also, Russian bathrooms usually had a small window above the shower that went into the kitchen...from which companions would harass each other during bathroom time. As a result, masturbation in a Russian mission is not a very feasible undertaking.
Nevertheless, I consider it to be such a "minor sin," so to speak, that the excessive guilt many "pocket-pooling missionaries" suffer from is much more harmful than the pocket-pool itself.