Monday 17 March 2008

Masturbation
Whatever term you may like to use (whacking off, flogging it, pumping his pickle, pounding it, beating it, wanking off, etc) masturbation is a very private and secretive matter which some may be hesitant to admit if questioned, even though you might thing there nothing to be ashamed about seen as it been taking place for about 5,000 years! Surely this is a reflection upon the hypocritical and narrow-mindedness of the society we live in.

I’m sure most of you do not need be to explain masturbation techniques as we all know that boys and girls masturbate in different ways, i.e. boys using their hand it rub and girls using a vibrator, dildo or just good old fashioned rubbing!

Whether you believe masturbation is an act of self-love or self-abuse, thinkers like Freud believe that it is absolutely inevitable that young boys and girls become aware of their pleasure senses and explore the ‘sexual act’. In knowing this some parents use to use prevention techniques such as cold baths.

So is masturbation good or ‘bad’? Well if we take Freud’s and other health professional’s views masturbation is natural and even recommended especially to women to increase their self-worth and confidence. I personally take the view of the Greeks that is a ‘safety valve against destructive sexual frustration’. If you are horny it would make sense to masturbation so you can get on with the rest of your day, does it not? Or should you not let yours senses get the best of you? Would it not be safer to practice masturbation every time you are horny instead of having sex with different partners frequently? These are obviously the benefits of masturbation, reducing stress of having a disease or pregnancy.

However, this liberal view has not always been taken! In the Victorian era the act was considered ‘bad’. Religious preachers and authors condemned masturbation and claimed boys who did had mental deficiencies and suffered from insanity. To reach a high morality and spirituality the idea may be to ignore the greedy sense of the body in order to be liberated by a higher force.

I’m sure most of us did not really give masturbation much thought before we attended the lecture and this alone shows that it not much of a big deal anymore and so take the ‘if they do, they do and if they don’t, they don’t approach!’ :)
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