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<p>Blaire Briody <a href="http://www.utne.com/Mind-Body/Dirty-Girls-Ministries-Evil-Female-Masturbation.aspx" target="_self">profiles</a> Dirty Girls Ministries, which attempts to &quot;cure&quot; women of masturbation and porn-watching:</p>
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<p>Dirty Girls member Amy Christine Proctor, a self-described addict and a  flight attendant from Colorado, started masturbating while she was  visiting chat rooms on AOL. Unmarried and a virgin at 30, Proctor has  struggled with her sexual identity since puberty, believing her same-sex  thoughts are a sin. Last year, she says, she was masturbating almost  daily, sometimes twice a day. To rehabilitate herself, she became an  active member of Dirty Girls Ministries and started driving two hours to  attend a 12-step program for sex addicts called Heart to Heart. But  when she realized the masturbation was stemming from underlying  sexual-identity issues, she switched to a program called Where Grace  Bounds that deals with “sexual brokenness and homosexuality,” while  remaining an active member of the Dirty Girls forums.</p>
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