Remember when the fear of going blind or growing hair on your palms was enough to make you stop masturbating? Neither do I, but apparently The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been spreading a much more “terrifying” myth since the eighties that self pleasure makes you gay. A recently leaked booklet on homosexuality (second edition) for church leaders suggests “early” masturbation could cause adolescents to become gay, according to Newsweek.