If you were to listen to physicians even fifty years ago, you’d have been told that masturbation, sexual self-stimulation, often using the hand to rub the genitals, would lead to a wide variety of physical and mental disorders, ranging from hairy palms to insanity. Had they been correct however, most of us would be wearing gloves to hide the sight of our hair-covered palms – for masturbation is one of the most frequently practiced sexual activities. Some 94 percent of all males and 63 pervent of all females have masturbated at least once, and among college students, the frequency ranges from “never” to “several times a day” (Houston, 1981; Hunt, 1974).
Although masturbation is often considered an activity to engage in only if no other sexual outlets are available, this view bears little relationship to reality. Close to three-quarters of married men (age 20 – 40) report masturbating and average of twenty-four times a year, and 68 percent of the married women in the same age group masturbate and average of ten times each year.
Despite the high incidence of masturbation, attitudes toward it still reflect some of the negative views of yesteryear. For instance, one survey found that around 10 percent of the people who masturbated experienced feelings of guilt, and 5 percent of the males and 1 percent of the females considered their behavior perverted (Arafat & Cotton, 1974). Despite these negative attitudes, however, most experts on sex view masturbation not only as a healthy, legitimate – and harmless – sexual activity, but also as a means of learning about one’s own sexuality.
Is this some sort of hint? 😉
#1 | Comment by Victim — March 28, 2003 @ 7:28 pm
Wha….what about the butt?
#2 | Comment by Bubba — March 28, 2003 @ 7:52 pm
i dont think people masturbate with their butt.
well.
maybe jenn.
#3 | Comment by Justin — March 28, 2003 @ 7:53 pm
…and maybe dikkok.
#4 | Comment by Bubba — March 28, 2003 @ 7:54 pm
…and kingolf.
#5 | Comment by Justin — March 28, 2003 @ 7:55 pm
I think woody allen put it best. "don’t knock masturbation, it’s sex with someone I love."
#6 | Comment by charles — March 28, 2003 @ 8:14 pm
wait a minute…an average of 24 times per year for men and 10 times per year for women? are you sure that’s not per month?
#7 | Comment by gabdabary — March 28, 2003 @ 8:44 pm
Or per week?
#8 | Comment by Dugas of eenodol — March 28, 2003 @ 10:25 pm
geeze, justin… what were YOU doing this evening?
#9 | Comment by lizzie — March 29, 2003 @ 1:10 am
I can’t say I have learned a great deal about my own sexuality from masturbation other than it feels good when someone touches my wiener.
#10 | Comment by Onan — March 29, 2003 @ 1:25 am
No comments.
#11 | Comment by Kingolf — March 29, 2003 @ 3:23 am
I masturbate to Suzi, although she has gotten a little slutty lately so it makes it harder to work with the whole innocent young’n famtasy
#12 | Comment by Yo — March 29, 2003 @ 4:31 am
I masturbate at least once day usually its twice, well hey you would do the same thing if you’ve got the collection of porn that I have.. 😉
#13 | Comment by WP_LeGeNd — March 29, 2003 @ 5:24 am
I don’t know if it is because I am older or because I am older I am far busier with work than I used to be. I’m slipping way down into the low end of those national averages…
#14 | Comment by smash — March 29, 2003 @ 7:49 am
Justin-
BTW. Justin, I find it funny that most of the statics used are almost 30 years old. What that tells me, is it was from a time when people were much more repressed about discussing this. Those numbers would probably be far higher today.
#15 | Comment by smash — March 29, 2003 @ 7:52 am
O_o o_O
What? *grins stupidly*
#16 | Comment by thefelinepunk — March 29, 2003 @ 7:53 am
Final note.
Yo- masturbating to Suzi…that’s just creepy. Masturbating to Liz on the other hand…
#17 | Comment by smash — March 29, 2003 @ 7:54 am
if ure cot masturbathink over at my places then allah have mercy on your wiener!!!!!…anyways,tell those infidelic american dogs that they wont ever get me or my blessed sons…im hiding in one of my luxurious underground suites and jesus’s dad is protecting me..har…stupit amerikans!!!!!!go nail urself to cross and chill out and smoke marijuana…better then going to whore…
#18 | Comment by saddam.....not dikkok — March 29, 2003 @ 8:45 am
jesus is son of god…so allah is jesus’s dad…and dads are alwasy more powderful than sons..so…tell amerikans to pray to allah instead…
#19 | Comment by saddam — March 29, 2003 @ 8:47 am
Is it wrong to masturbate thinking of Donkey Anal Sex?
I think masturbation is a normal process in human development, but anything in excess can be harmfull… In my worst times (12-13ish), I didnt masturbate more then five times a week… I guess I dont have much of a sex drive.
#20 | Comment by Guizhang — March 29, 2003 @ 9:23 am
And I think women masturbating 10 times a year is a somewhat exagarated figure, but if that is what the report says, how am I to argue?
#21 | Comment by Guizhang — March 29, 2003 @ 9:26 am
…or day in some cases…HEY I DIDN"T SAY IT WAS ME…could be a friend of mine or something
#22 | Comment by Will — March 29, 2003 @ 12:05 pm
Masturbation is one of the many keys to sanity. Period.
#23 | Comment by Marley — March 29, 2003 @ 12:16 pm
I find it highly amusing that you used pervent instead of percent when talking about self-gratifying women…
fruedian slip… or just justin being a perv himself?? hmmmmm….
#24 | Comment by ricochet — March 29, 2003 @ 12:42 pm
someone has masturbation on the mind…. heh
#25 | Comment by stacia — March 29, 2003 @ 1:59 pm
Do suzi or liz think its cool or disgusting when someone masturbates to them? I’m not sure how I would take that.
#26 | Comment by Onan — March 29, 2003 @ 4:27 pm
I’d say pretty creepy.
Knowing that other (older) people use you in their fantasies… ugh.
#27 | Comment by Kingolf — March 29, 2003 @ 4:47 pm
yeah not many comments from the female perspective on this topic yet.
#28 | Comment by MyKe — March 29, 2003 @ 4:54 pm
And you’re not freakin’ likely to, either. Unfortunately, women are generally discouraged from masturbating by even "open minded" Western societies.
At a certain age, I got fed up with my female friends complaining about to me about being non-orgasmic and began buying them vibrators, erotic novels and books like For Yourself by Lonnie G. Barbach.
Recently, I told one friend who complained that her b/f wasn’t giving her any to start masturbating in front of him. If that didn’t get turn him on, forgeddaboutdit.
#29 | Comment by RedEye — March 29, 2003 @ 9:52 pm
Does anone have any Bangbus passwords or any pornsite passwords, while we’re on the subject of course…please post them
#30 | Comment by Wusher — March 29, 2003 @ 10:00 pm
Just helping the collective…
bangbus as usual…
capetyre:affapint
knitulua:hoheeryx
tufacurt:iowafuji
#31 | Comment by Psykodelik — March 30, 2003 @ 2:01 am
Psyko:
I I had the power, I’d make you an Honorary FUBARb.
#32 | Comment by Kingolf — March 30, 2003 @ 4:09 am
I videotape myself masturbating, and then I masturbate to myself masturbating. I find this experience is the ultimate in self gratification. And sometimes I’ll stick a finger up my butt. Or two, or three…
#33 | Comment by IronChef — March 30, 2003 @ 5:17 am
okay
#34 | Comment by Susan — March 30, 2003 @ 11:35 am
too much info there…:)
#35 | Comment by MyKe — March 30, 2003 @ 6:16 pm
mental masturbation…
anyways, i was once told of this age old belief that a guys "machinery", like a car could only be used around 7000 times in his lifetime, before it stutters and dies…
does that mean after ten years of masturbation + sex (daily basis) i only have nine years left to use it?
would someone please enlighten me in this belief?
#36 | Comment by beng — March 30, 2003 @ 8:08 pm
being completely honest, i am addicted to sex. i do have sex, at least 2 days a week, depending on how many nights i go out and yet i masturbate around 8 to 10 times a day. is there something wrong w/me?
#37 | Comment by uncle pauly — March 30, 2003 @ 11:58 pm
If you sit on your hands for about 10 min and then masturbate it feels as if someone else is giving you a handjob!
#38 | Comment by Lennix — March 31, 2003 @ 5:44 am
but if a friend sits on his hanf for ten min then gives you a handjob that is called the strangers stranger
#39 | Comment by indiana chris — March 31, 2003 @ 9:19 pm