Somehow I don’t know how I’m writing about this topic, but as a whole I feel it should be as private as anything a couple do in the bedroom. It is normal and shouldn’t be as classed as ‘sinful’ as it once was; that’s proof how things have changed over decades.
As in the lecture it was equally as interesting to find out how viewpoint of topic has changed from it wanting to be prevented by parents telling the child to stop ‘touching yourself down there’ or even by old fashioned ways or wearable articles. When seeing the old fashion ways of prevention it was horrible to find out they would work because they wasn’t meant to be comfortable. It was interesting to find out the history and the development of the subject as not many people or parents wish not to talk about the subject openly to their teenage children as many teenagers feel it’s ‘embarrassing’ to talk about sexual matters with their parents.
When looking at the results from the survey that was taken from students the results were surprising as I noted first that in the question to do with first masturbation there was a surprising mixed starting ages for women as most men started at the age of 13, maybe this shows the difference in sexual appetites as some men and women had equally started at an younger age. The second result I noted was that men do it more regularly do it as many women don’t do it at all maybe this shows that its seems more natural to men than women. Another result I noted was that in a sexual relationship most do it less often maybe this is because when in a sexual relationship some may find they don’t need to do it alone when having a sexual partner. Another thing I noted in the results was that most men need porn as an aid as women don’t mind what aid they use maybe this is due to the fact that men and women have their own person preferences to what they enjoy. When looking into in the results it made me think how different we really are.
It’s not often that the subject comes into the news media but in 2003 researchers found that masturbation cuts the risk of cancer: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3072021.stm ; as it says in the article that men should be encouraged to masturbate as it is also in ‘part of people's sexual repertoire’ as it was found that ‘Men who ejaculated more t7n five times a week were a third less likely to develop prostate cancer later in life.’ I think is scientifically proof to a unlikely theory that a natural and normal thing such as masturbation can benefit the man in more than one area. Another scientific research found that women that are more "emotionally intelligent" get more pleasure from sex: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8044571.stm the study shows that the greater the women is emotionally smart the more orgasms she has, this theory is very interesting as it proof once again that there is so much we don’t know about the sexual side of the body.
Is it really a bad thing to teach children that masturbation is a bad thing? Or do we want it became a taboo subject like it once was?
I think that is lecture was embarrassing but also funny. I agree with you when you said that masturbation is a private thing. I also agree with you when you said that people’s views of masturbation has changes think that people are more open to talk about it now than they were back in the day.
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