Where Peace Begins. Kemi threw back her head and cried agonizingly. She had done it again. Her heart constricted in pain as she thought of how hopeless she was. Over and over again, she had tried to put her body under control. To be strong and say no to that force that excited her hormones and pushed her to masturbate. She had failed every single time. She knew it was wrong. There were people who thought masturbation was a normal, okay process for every youth but Kemi knew the truth. She knew masturbation was nothing else but sin. As she stared at her room and her laptop where she had viewed a pornography, she felt wasted. There was this uselessness that came after masturbating. She couldn't explain it but it was there. She felt filthy, dirty and guilty and she knew even if she took her bath ten thousand times, those feelings would never leave. Worse, was the fact that she couldn't run away from it. No matter how much she tried, Kemi found herself in this mess of