May Is National Masturbation Month

8th May, 2010 by Dr. Teesha Morgan

Masturbation - Playing with Yourself

The saying “Masturbation is like procrastination, it seems like a good idea at the time but in the end you’re really only fucking yourself”, has in my generation, been somewhat accepted as truth. Masturbation’s bad reputation has been around since before Victorian times and has earned much of its sinful stamp from the Roman Catholic Church. Others that have managed to push past the sinful connotations however, are often times still held up on the belief that it is an activity practiced only by people who cannot get access to “real” sex (hence the derogatory term “jerk” whose meaning has been influenced by the phrase “jerking off” slang for male masturbation, and its British equivalent “wanker” which translates loosely into “loser”).

In today’s scientifically based society one would hope that these negative views on masturbation would fade, given the fact that we have proven that masturbation leading to orgasm has numerous health benefits (sleep aid, eases depression, stress reliever, makes you look younger, helps alleviate sinus pressure, elevates mood, pain reliever etc and the list goes on and on).

But where does masturbation fit in the minds of this generation?

Well it turns out that the frequency with which people masturbate is strongly influenced by their sex, age, ethnicity, religion, educational level, marital status and sexual orientation. So if science holds true, I could theoretically predict how often YOU masturbated – and your views on it – by simply asking you a few simple questions.

Turns out, if you are a 25-35 year old white (or Hispanic) male, whose never been married, has a master’s degree or higher and categorizes themselves as “other” in the religious realm; then you’ve spent a lot of time playing sexual solitaire. I’m sure it’s no surprise that men on average report masturbating more often than women, but it may be a surprise to learn that among women, homosexual behaviour or identity is associated with a higher frequency of masturbation, surpassing some males of heterosexual standing – depending on the factors listed above.

Despite “normative” factors, what does evolutionary psychologists says about “couch hockey for one” – a behaviour that seems disadvantageous for the point of view of reproductive success?

Well it’s possible that male masturbation is an adaptive behaviour because it gets rid of “aged” sperm that have been stored for some time and are no longer of optimal quality for fertilization. And masturbation in both sexes may simply be a by-product of selection for other behavioural traits that increase our reproductive success, like a high sex drive.

So with May being National Masturbation month, I suggest we celebrate! Lets drop our negative labels and do what biology has equipped us to do! After all, if God didn’t want you to masturbate he would have made your arms shorter.

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9 Responses to “May Is National Masturbation Month”


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    May 10th, 2010 at 5:50 pm

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    May 11th, 2010 at 11:36 am

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    Cheers!


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    May 20th, 2010 at 11:58 pm

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  8. Carrol Borgos
    October 10th, 2010 at 6:24 am

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  9. Wilson Oshita
    October 24th, 2010 at 7:52 pm

    ok so something that has been bugging the heck out of me for quite some time, in the trans community we have our many labels n so many of us find that labels don’t describe us very well at all. that of course is not the issue i care to disguss here. (so please no rambling on about how labels dont fit everyone, we all have heard this) what i find to be the issue is our section of the community gladly accepts people in under our wings that merely dress as a sexual gratification(fetish) and have absolutely no intentions what so ever of doing anything female except during a session of domination only they live happily as a man n think of nothing more than the the thoughts of a man but yet they want 2 log into n b memebers of trans sites n other such groups maybe in real life (they make their fetish a part of the out in the open dispite their lack of desire for the public to see them as a woman) and i just dont feel they are a part of our community in any way, but more of the bdsm community, this i feel is why so many trans people wind up getting tagged by the non trans people as a pervert because they think they are “getting off on being in public wearing girls clothes” which is not the case. thoughts, comments, or feedback?