“I don’t want anybody else
When I think about you I touch myself…”
-The Divinyls
This is probably part one of a couple of posts I want to write so here goes hehe (this would have been up earlier but I was distracted)
So May is suppossedly masturbation month. I dunno about you but I just don’t have the time nor the energy to wank everyday this month, but some days I can try make up for it by having three or four sessions hehe. The past two days I more than well made up for the last week at least.
Masturbation may was started by Good Vibrations in 1995, to protest the firing of sex-positive U.S. Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders. Elders suggested that masturbation should be a part of sex education and was then fired from her post. Why did they choose May for this blessed month? Because “the merry, merry month of May” has long been seen as symbolizing sexual awakening. Heh pagan rituals and sabbats come to mind.
Masturbation has such an interesting history. It’s also the safest sex out, think about it … no pregnancy and no STD’s. And hell it’s fun. Figures show between 70 -95% of adult men and women masturbate.
Let’s look at the word itself. I like words. I like to know the history of them and how they came about. There are four main meanings when searching for the etymological (study of the history of words) meaning of the word.
masturbate ~ verb stimulate one’s genitals with one’s hand for sexual pleasure (ORIGIN Latin~ masturbari)
- to disturb (oneself) by hand
- to milk by disturbing (oneself)
- to defile (oneself) by hand
- to defile (oneself) by milking
THE GOOD STUFF THAT COMES (hehe yea I know bad pun) FROM SELF PLEASURE…
Self Knowledge.
Masturbation is the first, safest, and best way to get to know how your sexual body works. As an educational tool for self knowledge, masturbation beats any book hands down (gawd lotsa puns today *snikker*)
Great for insomnia.
I don’t know about you but I damn well know it’s a great way to help one sleep.
Pain relief. Apparently because of all those wonderful endorphins floating around in your body after a good wanking session can help relieve pain such as sore joints, headaches (yes the I have a headache excuse is kinda void) menstrual cramps and other things. It’s a natural pain relief.
Stress relief.
It’s a healthy, drug free, non pharmaceutical tool right at your fingertips.
MYTHS ABOUT SELF PLEASURE…
Masturbation isn’t real sex.
FAIL … it is real. Sometimes some of those orgasms you have when masturbating are the best, most real you get.
Masturbation is bad for your health.
This myth originated with an anti-masturbation tract that was written in 1712 as a way to sell a bogus “tonic” that was supposed to stop the disease of “self-pollution”. From sillies labelling it as cause to make one go blind, insane, get acne or hair will grow on your palms. All claims that have been refuted by science. Today virtually all physicians and scholars agree that masturbation is harmless.
Only certain kinds of people masturbate.
Survey research debunks this myth. Whether you are 19 or 99, religious and conservative or secular and liberal, whether you are a parent, grandparent, uncle or aunt, whether you get around on your own two legs or use a wheelchair, scooter, crutches, or roller-skates to get around, almost everyone has masturbated at some point in their lives, and most of us continue to do so.
MASTURBATION IN HISTORY…
1712 ~ Publication of the First Influential Anti-Masturbation Tract
The war on masturbation began in proper somewhere around 1712 when an anonymous doctor published a text entitled: Onania; or, The Heinous Sin of Self Pollution, and all its Frightful Consequences… The text warned against the dangers of defiling your own body, and offered a series of cures (that could be purchased). According to historian Thomas Laqueur’s Solitary Sex, one can trace much of hysteria and misinformation surrounding masturbation to this first work of fiction masquerading as medicine.
Corn Flakes, Graham Crackers, and Other Anti-Masturbatory Devices
The late 1800s to the early 1900s were dark days for masturbation. During this time both Corn Flakes and Graham Crackers were developed in an effort to curb masturbatory impulses in young boys (which were seen as leading to poor health, mental illness, and all manner of evil). Between 1856 and 1932 the U.S. Patent Office approved 33 patents for “anti-masturbation” devices. These torture devices developed by physicians and moralistic inventors alike ranged from spiked rings to male chastity belts to electrifying devices that would be sufficient for “burning the flesh” causing “great physical pain, and possible mutilation”.
There’s a hell of alot to be said for a good wanking session. Infact just writing about it has made me feel the urge to explore myself just a little more …
Cornflakes anyone?
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