Self-pleasure is in crisis. This researcher knows why.
According to every conceivable scientific metric, masturbation is healthy, or at the very least harmless. You are not risking hairy palms, or depleted reproductive potency, or psychosexual deviancy by taking pleasure into your own hands. And yet, for as long as we’ve intellectualized human sexuality, a whole cabal of prudish authorities have attempted to convince us of the opposite.
There were definitely times like that. Masturbation was once a behavior that was accepted—nobody thought one way or another about it. But then you insert some of the religious prohibitions that were around for a few thousand years, who started tainting masturbation with the idea that it is sinful. Especially for men—women were ignored in the religious texts, which is its own brand of misogyny. But for men, the focus was on not wasting your seed or the God-given purpose of your genitals.
Do you have any thoughts on how, in general, we can develop a healthier personal relationship with masturbation? As I said earlier, our attitudes about masturbation will impact how we feel towards it, and our feelings of satisfaction and pleasure. It’s a good idea to elevate masturbation to be at the same level of partnered sex. Oftentimes it gets reduced to a poor substitute, a backup, something less than. But masturbation is the form of sex we have most often in our lives, and based on the research, the sex that most reliably leads to arousal and orgasm.
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