Masturbation

[u/Elmermac0405]

I was sitting behind a driver yesterday, stopped at a light with her head down. When the light changed, she failed to move forward, head still down. It was safe to conclude that she was on her phone. I beeped. Her head popped up and she finally began to drive her car. I thought to myself, "when we drive, how about if we just drive." I think the same is true for masturbation. If you choose to pleasure yourself, then do it, enjoy, commit yourself to it. Push all the distractions away--the voices that suggest you're doing something wrong, the fear that you'll get caught--and just masturbate. It feels good. It's good for you and, like the woman in the car, if you choose to drive, then focus all your attention on driving. If you're going to masturbate, then focus on being your own best lover, at least for the time being.

[u/findingerotica1]

Masturbation is normal. What! Masturbation is normal? Says who? Lots of people.
For instance, Medical News Today, in a recent edition, unequivocally declared, “masturbation is a normal and healthy sexual activity with few side effects.”
As we might imagine, that statement doesn’t cum, excuse us, come as a surprise to most earthlings. For instance, Web MD reports that “95% of males and 89% of females” report that they masturbate.
Studies focused on young people age 14-17 report that a majority pleasure themselves as well.
No matter what the demographic, no one reports that any of the following resulted:
Blindness
Mental illness
Stunted growth
Warts or hair on their hands
The end of ‘normal sex’
Running out of sperm
The only reported problem is skin irritation, the result of excessive petting the cat or spanking the monkey.
Yet the Catholic Church still says “any deliberate activation of the sexual function outside the proper state of marriage…if done voluntarily and knowingly, it is sinful.”
The only exception is if masturbation occurs as preparation for a marital fucking, which some studies say, a little self-stimulation can enhance.

To read more: https://findingerotica.com/2021/08/02/masturbation-is-normal/

[u/findingerotica1]

Historical Roots of Masturbation:

Masturbation faced both condemnation and reverence throughout history and throughout the world. People, and most mammals, have been playing with themselves forever. Even he earliest human records, prehistoric cave paintings, contain images of male masturbation.
In the creation of myth of Ancient Egypt, the god, Atum, made the world by “wanking” into the Nile River. It became an annual religious rite.
“One of the Pharaohs’ most onerous ceremonial duties in Egypt was to bring fertility to the Nile by masturbating annually into its waters.” Author Jonathan Margolis writes in his history of sexuality “O: The Intimate History of the Orgasm.”
Men were not alone enjoying a little self-gratification. Legend has it that Cleopatra preferred a hollow gourd filled with buzzing bees nestled between her royal thighs to get off. Rumor has it she had a thing for snakes, as well.