Stephan:   Believe it or not this is a trend. The Theocratic Right is becoming increasingly agitated about women and masturbation. My first inclination when I read this was that it was a joke or some aberrant sex obsessed preacher. But I tracked back to the original source described in this story, and from there to half a dozen more sites in the surreal world of the "Christian" Right. This women masturbating business is part of the Quiverful, wifely submission, girls are vulnerable to the devil and must be controlled worldview. These are people who live in constant fear of opening themselves to demons, and they are quite serious about this. I mean the full late Medieval Hieronymus Bosch demonology.  It is hard for me to enter into their worldview, but I do understand there are hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. who share this perspective and, in some states, they are a strong political and cultural force. I think it is notable that you almost never encounter any of this in Europe. Europeans spent much of a millennia fighting over religion, and religion and the state, until the bodies just piled up too high, and with the exception of the Irish, and the breakup states of Yugoslavia, they just quit.