This is nonsense. Why do you think they want to do it in the first place? Masturbation doesn't make your hormones go wonky and lead you into these sexual behaviors. God makes your body go wonky by developing these hormones in you naturally in order to give our species the drive to self-procreate. If anything, masturbation allows them the pressure-valve release to not just go running out in front of a car to have sex with the first thing that moves!well it will lead the to want to have sexual relations. Do you want a sexually active 11year old? And then there are the consequences they are not prepared to handle if they do.
Not acknowledging these natural and normal and healthy urges is what will screw up your mind, emotions, and body. This sort of "self-control" is not healthy at all, but rather repressive of natural, normal, and healthy urges that nature gives our biology in order to survive. It's like exercising "self-control" over the urge to eat or to go to the bathroom. Nonsense.there are so many reasons to discourage them....teach them self control instead
Comparing sexual urges to violent urges such as smashing someone in the face is invalid. It doesn't harm them. It doesn't harm others. It doesn't ruin their lives. However, that said, anything that is otherwise healthy and normal when done excessively is detrimental. Someone binge eating is unhealthy. They do it just for the sake of some sort of nervous, neurotic urge. Same thing with masturbation. Someone doing it all day long when there is not the normal, natural, and healthy urge for sexual release is taking something healthy and making it unhealthy. That's a psychological problem. Repressing the body is also a psychological problem like anorexia.
Calling masturbation in essence a "gateway drug" to actual sex is absurd. Again, the hormones themselves that lead one to sex, which is normal and healthy, and even ordained by God if you wish to look at it that way, is what leads to one masturbating in lieu of a partner. Thank goodness for that outlet, rather than just going to town with the first willing partner you see.