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Masturbation is normal, everyone does it, but a few are afraid to admit it. Studies and surveys tend to suggest that of sexually active and healthy males and females (ones who are capable), frequency ranges from several times a day to several times a week, depending on your equipment. Internet survey's tend to rate higher but probably can't be trusted. Frequency tends to go down as you get above 30 but perhaps that's because they are ejaculating more often from other means. The best suggestion I have come across is to start with is masturbate once a day then work up or down from there, depending on your need. Fact is, it is probably better to do it too much than too little. Some think research is needed to prove that doing something natural to our bodies is healthy. For those, research was recently published proving the benefits of not only masturbation but FREQUENT masturbation for health and reducing the risk of cancer ( http://www.news-medical.net/?id=333). Many other studies you can easily find yourself reveal the benefit of regular masturbation to keeping you sexually fit and functioning, and ready for your mate. Regular ejaculation during the developing years is essential to healthy sexual response later... and incase you missed that oportunity, you can't go back to catch up. Any doubters should be dismissed and reason should prevail. In the end, I have never met anyone who wished they had done it less. Everyone I have talked with about it would have done it more had they felt they had permission.
It's past time for an open discussion on the taboo subject of masturbation in the U.S... or at least a discussion on why it can’t be discussed openly. Our inability to discuss and accept it as a healthy and useful tool to postpone teen risky sex is truly another Katrina or Vioxx happening. In 1994 half of all new HIV infections were occurring in youths younger than 25 years of age, many even in teens. As you know, Dr. Elders was fired in 1994 for even suggesting masturbation as a tool in the fight. Only abstinence was offered in its place. A Doonesbury comic (Garry Trudeau) was even censored on 8/29/03 because the topic was masturbation. I can't believe some folks actually think the U.S. is decadent when we can't even say the word masturbation without fear! Any progress so far? The number of new HIV infections has only risen since then. In addition, last September the CDC reported larger numbers of teens engaging in oral sex, a risky behavior. More than normal experimentation, it’s on a regular basis. Teens are using this as a substitute and sometimes even an adjunct to intercourse. If Catholic priests can't even practice abstinence, how can we expect our teens with raging hormones to practice it! This policy is forced on us by people with other interests than our doctors' and sound science, many of whom can't even remember being a teen and are married with a convenient outlet for this sexual impulse they so deny to others. In addition, abstinence-only education offers nothing to teens once they begin engaging in sex.
Shouldn't we inform teenage boys, when it can do the most good, that it's normal, healthy, and expected and that every single guy who walks the earth does it or lies that they don't.
This page is not an encyclopedia entry, it's an exhaustive diatribe. Seriously, somebody's compensating.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Logan.aggregate ( talk • contribs) 14:58, 27 July 2006
" self-abuse" does not redirect to this article (nor should it). I removed that reference. - IstvanWolf 23:09, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Boys should never worry about masturbating. All the stuff that says it's wrong is anti-biological. The male human gets an erection for a reason, at all ages, because he needs to off load his reproductive product. Boys? young men get erections, why hide it? , it's a fact of life, the best thing fashion could do is make erections fashionable! Why shouldn't a 15 year old boy have an erection in public? As a world public we are affraid of erections. I do not know why. I think we should encourage our young men to have and be proud of their erections!
I'm afraid that being embarrased about having an erection in public is not going away. This can start all the way back to Ancient Roman bathhouses when men were the only gender in there and naked. In these times it was considered bad to have an erection in public. This can set an example of things yet to come hence today.
-> It's bad because: for both the boy/man and fertile females that happen to be around. Both males and females find it difficult to control their sexual urges to a safe degree in this today's world (let's face it, almost noone has all the sex they want), and this might exascerbate the problem, similar to if they saw each other in sexual positions etc. Final note: On nudist beaches when a man gets a sharp erection he is expected to leave where any females are gathered.
I added a section to the article about Judaism, I hope you find it informative:
"The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch reads:
"It is the indulgence forbidden in the religous aspect more so over the act of masturbation." Can someone who is familiar with the RC catechism either explain what this sentence means, or make it clearer? If not, I'm planning on removing it, as the rest of the small sub-section seems to make perfect sense without it. -- Nigelj 21:08, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
I believe the quotation from the catechism is incorrect. This is what is really at the link referenced: "The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose." For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of "the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved." 67.51.34.75 10:38, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Doesn't the word "masturbation" come from Latin 'masturbari' or 'masturbor,' which means 'to defile oneself'? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mixaelus ( talk • contribs) .
This article needed to have the important information about it being a sexcrime added —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.214.54.245 ( talk • contribs) .
Are they neccesary? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Slaya Ain't Dead! ( talk • contribs)
I would like to propose this picture for the top of the page instead of the two already there, without any caption - none are required, after all.
Haiduc
10:30, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
I've never heard anyone say Masturbation is a "Cardiovascular Workout"? where's the citation??? Stevo D 18:22, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
"Some women masturbate by inserting objects into the urethra (e.g. ball point pens, glass thermometers)" Seriously, is this true or just one person's technique? Maybe we should name it "mad hatter action." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.15.57.128 ( talk • contribs)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 | Archive 4 | Archive 5 | → | Archive 10 |
Masturbation is normal, everyone does it, but a few are afraid to admit it. Studies and surveys tend to suggest that of sexually active and healthy males and females (ones who are capable), frequency ranges from several times a day to several times a week, depending on your equipment. Internet survey's tend to rate higher but probably can't be trusted. Frequency tends to go down as you get above 30 but perhaps that's because they are ejaculating more often from other means. The best suggestion I have come across is to start with is masturbate once a day then work up or down from there, depending on your need. Fact is, it is probably better to do it too much than too little. Some think research is needed to prove that doing something natural to our bodies is healthy. For those, research was recently published proving the benefits of not only masturbation but FREQUENT masturbation for health and reducing the risk of cancer ( http://www.news-medical.net/?id=333). Many other studies you can easily find yourself reveal the benefit of regular masturbation to keeping you sexually fit and functioning, and ready for your mate. Regular ejaculation during the developing years is essential to healthy sexual response later... and incase you missed that oportunity, you can't go back to catch up. Any doubters should be dismissed and reason should prevail. In the end, I have never met anyone who wished they had done it less. Everyone I have talked with about it would have done it more had they felt they had permission.
It's past time for an open discussion on the taboo subject of masturbation in the U.S... or at least a discussion on why it can’t be discussed openly. Our inability to discuss and accept it as a healthy and useful tool to postpone teen risky sex is truly another Katrina or Vioxx happening. In 1994 half of all new HIV infections were occurring in youths younger than 25 years of age, many even in teens. As you know, Dr. Elders was fired in 1994 for even suggesting masturbation as a tool in the fight. Only abstinence was offered in its place. A Doonesbury comic (Garry Trudeau) was even censored on 8/29/03 because the topic was masturbation. I can't believe some folks actually think the U.S. is decadent when we can't even say the word masturbation without fear! Any progress so far? The number of new HIV infections has only risen since then. In addition, last September the CDC reported larger numbers of teens engaging in oral sex, a risky behavior. More than normal experimentation, it’s on a regular basis. Teens are using this as a substitute and sometimes even an adjunct to intercourse. If Catholic priests can't even practice abstinence, how can we expect our teens with raging hormones to practice it! This policy is forced on us by people with other interests than our doctors' and sound science, many of whom can't even remember being a teen and are married with a convenient outlet for this sexual impulse they so deny to others. In addition, abstinence-only education offers nothing to teens once they begin engaging in sex.
Shouldn't we inform teenage boys, when it can do the most good, that it's normal, healthy, and expected and that every single guy who walks the earth does it or lies that they don't.
This page is not an encyclopedia entry, it's an exhaustive diatribe. Seriously, somebody's compensating.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Logan.aggregate ( talk • contribs) 14:58, 27 July 2006
" self-abuse" does not redirect to this article (nor should it). I removed that reference. - IstvanWolf 23:09, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Boys should never worry about masturbating. All the stuff that says it's wrong is anti-biological. The male human gets an erection for a reason, at all ages, because he needs to off load his reproductive product. Boys? young men get erections, why hide it? , it's a fact of life, the best thing fashion could do is make erections fashionable! Why shouldn't a 15 year old boy have an erection in public? As a world public we are affraid of erections. I do not know why. I think we should encourage our young men to have and be proud of their erections!
I'm afraid that being embarrased about having an erection in public is not going away. This can start all the way back to Ancient Roman bathhouses when men were the only gender in there and naked. In these times it was considered bad to have an erection in public. This can set an example of things yet to come hence today.
-> It's bad because: for both the boy/man and fertile females that happen to be around. Both males and females find it difficult to control their sexual urges to a safe degree in this today's world (let's face it, almost noone has all the sex they want), and this might exascerbate the problem, similar to if they saw each other in sexual positions etc. Final note: On nudist beaches when a man gets a sharp erection he is expected to leave where any females are gathered.
I added a section to the article about Judaism, I hope you find it informative:
"The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch reads:
"It is the indulgence forbidden in the religous aspect more so over the act of masturbation." Can someone who is familiar with the RC catechism either explain what this sentence means, or make it clearer? If not, I'm planning on removing it, as the rest of the small sub-section seems to make perfect sense without it. -- Nigelj 21:08, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
I believe the quotation from the catechism is incorrect. This is what is really at the link referenced: "The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose." For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of "the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved." 67.51.34.75 10:38, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Doesn't the word "masturbation" come from Latin 'masturbari' or 'masturbor,' which means 'to defile oneself'? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mixaelus ( talk • contribs) .
This article needed to have the important information about it being a sexcrime added —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.214.54.245 ( talk • contribs) .
Are they neccesary? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Slaya Ain't Dead! ( talk • contribs)
I would like to propose this picture for the top of the page instead of the two already there, without any caption - none are required, after all.
Haiduc
10:30, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
I've never heard anyone say Masturbation is a "Cardiovascular Workout"? where's the citation??? Stevo D 18:22, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
"Some women masturbate by inserting objects into the urethra (e.g. ball point pens, glass thermometers)" Seriously, is this true or just one person's technique? Maybe we should name it "mad hatter action." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.15.57.128 ( talk • contribs)