Masturbation: An Overview

By Ann Andriani All Sex Guide

Masturbation is a wonderful way to receive sexual pleasure or release sexual energy or tension. You can do it anytime and anywhere. It’s all about you, so you’ll never be turned down! It’s a very natural activity that we all have a right, as a human being, to do.

Screw Popular Belief

It is unfortunate that the popular belief about masturbation is that it’s an immature activity or a second rate substitute for partner sex. It’s also unfortunate that as a society, we are encouraged not to talk about it. When we were babies and we touched our genitals what happened? Our parents yelled to us, "Don’t do that!" And the first time we tried masturbating, we had to do it totally on the sly, because it felt so good, but was so wrong to do. If only parents could speak more openly about masturbation, stressing that it isn’t wrong, but that it is something that one should do in private. So now we all grow up to believe that it’s this taboo thing that only losers and freaks of nature partake in, resulting in depriving ourselves of what could be the ultimate pleasure. And I hope that after reading this overview of such a wonderful activity, you will also believe that those theories and beliefs are nothing but pure crap!

YES! You ’re still with Me!

Since you’re still reading, I’ll take that as you want to know why masturbation is so good for so many reasons. So here we go!

By masturbating, we learn what type of stimulation feels good to us. 

This is important information to know when engaging in sexual play with a partner. If you don’t know how and where you like to be touched, how will you be able to communicate that to your partner. There’s enough anxiety and stress involved with pleasing a partner or lover, you should be able to adequately communicate this to your partner and vise versa. Then everyone will benefit from the experience. You’ll get great sexual pleasure from your lover and your lover will take comfort in knowing that he/she is doing what you like and you’re well satisfied by him/her.

When masturbating, you can go as slow or as fast as you’d like.

You can tease yourself for hours before climaxing or you can do it and get it done in just a few minutes and move on with your day. There’s no pressure on whether you’re doing a good job, you’re pleasing yourself. And if it doesn’t feel that good in the beginning, you can try as many different things as you like.

Masturbation is having sex. 

You don’t have to be with a partner just to have sex. Anything that gives you sexual pleasure is sex. Don’t allow all the negative talk of masturbation turn you away.

And masturbation will not make you not want to have sex with your lover. 

It’s not an either or thing. You may love to masturbate, but there’s nothing like sharing your love and your body with another human being. Get the best of both worlds, don’t choose!

Masturbation has some health attributes to it as well. 

It relieves stress, tension and menstrual cramps, releases endorphins, fights yeast infections by increasing blood flow to the pelvis, exercises and flushes the prostate gland, strengthens pelvic muscles, is a good cardiovascular workout, burns calories, gives you sexual self confidence which boosts self esteem and allows you to remain sexually active throughout your entire life.  Masturbation is great way for pregnant women and people with physical limitations to enjoy sex.

If you’ve never had an orgasm before, many sex therapists prescribe regular masturbation. 

Usually an hour a day for several weeks is all it takes. And basically your goal is to relax, to free yourself from all your worries and distractions and pay attention to yourself and your own pleasure. They say even if you don’t touch your genitals in the beginning that’s fine, just relax yourself enough to be able to do that.

And, this has to be the number one reason, Masturbation is the safest sex next to abstinence. 

And it’s more fun too. You don’t have to worry about catching any STD’s because it’s your own bodily fluids, so use as many toys and fingers as you’d like and go back and forth among them all.

So see, there’s no reason not to masturbate. In fact a study by the Kinsey Institute on masturbation revealed that 94% of men masturbate and 74% of women masturbate. So see, if you’re not in that statistic, you’re missing out.

Here’s some myths about masturbation...

Masturbation is addictive. 
No, there’s no right amount of times to masturbate. You can do it as much as you’d like, as long as it doesn’t interfere in your life in a negative way.

It’s wrong to receive such pleasure. 
This is very unfortunate and untrue. Everyone deserves to have some pleasures in life. It’s not wrong to indulge. It doesn’t mean you won’t want your partner anymore and it definitely doesn’t mean that your partner isn’t pleasing you properly.

Masturbation is dangerous.  
No, no, no. Just use common sense. Don’t do anything that may cause harm to yourself. And as far as having heart disease and having a heart attack; the Journal of American Medical Association reports that men have more of chance of having a heart attack after waking up, exerting themselves, or getting angry. But after sex, it’s very unlikely. If you can go for walks and exercise, you can masturbate.

So that’s it! I hope that I’ve convinced you to at least give it a try, if you haven’t yet indulged. And if you do try it and love it, let me know about it. It helps me to know that I’m bringing some pleasure into the lives of my readers. If you want to try and don’t know where to begin, than have a look a my other articles on masturbation. They go into a little more detail about how to get started.

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