Do priests masturbate too?

When I was young I often hear people say that masturbation is good and is healthy way of releasing tension, stress, etc. and also it helps clean the body giving way to the production of fresh semen everyday. I also hear people say that even priests do it too. So without knowing the consequences of my actions before, I delighted myself in the habit, overdid it and got addicted. Everytime I did it I always felt something wrong like I always felt it was a sin. So every now and then I would stop and found myself going back to the same old bad habit perpetually. Then once just recently I saw something in the Bible like nocturnal emission is unclean. If wet dreams are unclean then what more is masturbation did in one's consciousness compared to nocturnal emission that just happened involuntarily. Now I have the answer to my question why I always felt that way before. Somehow a good reason to quit PMO. Now I wonder if priests are sincere with their vocation, I don't know if all of them remains chaste in their lives. Some of them committed rape but it shouldn't surprise us cuz after all they're also humans just like us, tempted to sin. But for those who remain chaste I salute them as I know it's not easy. I'm only on my 14th day without PMO and I can already say that it's not easy living a life of being chaste. Knowing the pain and suffering of men who chose to remain chaste again my salute on them.

 

Yep they kind of overcome their flesh's desire and move to higher being which is spiritual.

 

I guess the key to overcoming carnal desires is to starve them to death since flesh can die but the spirit is eternal we shouldn't be starving our soul.

 

It's written in the Bible. I don't know either why. Maybe unclean thoughts give way to wet dreams.

 

It's never said wet dreams are sins but it was mentioned as unclean. It's like you wash everything that comes in contact with the semen.

 

I remember when I was a teen I regularly have wet dreams and yea I got them too even without dreams or any sexual dreams.

 

I believe the only valid reason for a release is procreation, of course with the person you love. And that's what makes it sacred.

 

OK thanks for that, I'll definitely read later.