Fun facts about masturbation! - Femail
Posted on March 27, 2009
by Melanie du Charme
From: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/sex-101/masturbation-23901.htm#Benefits
Masturbation and Shame
Many people feel shame or guilt about masturbating. People who receive negative messages about masturbation when they are young often carry feelings of shame into adulthood. Approximately 50 percent of women and 50 percent of men who masturbate feel guilty about it.
Negative feelings about masturbation can threaten our health and well-being. Only you can decide what is healthy and right for you. But if you feel ashamed or guilty about masturbating, talking with a trusted friend, sexuality educator, counselor, and/or clergy member may help.
What Are the Benefits of Masturbation?
Masturbation can be good for mental and physical health. People who feel good about their bodies, sex, and masturbation are more likely to protect themselves from sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy.
Masturbation is also one of the best ways we can learn about our sexuality. It can help us explore the types of touch we like the most and help us learn how to get excited and how to reach orgasm.
Learning about what feels good to you can increase your chance of feeling sexual pleasure with sex partners. When you know what you like when it comes to sex, your comfort with sex increases. And when your confidence and comfort level are high, it is easier to let your partner know what you like.
Masturbation can enhance our physical, mental, and sexual health and the health of our sexual relationships. Masturbation may:
* create a sense of well-being
* enhance sex with partners, physically and emotionally
* help people learn how they like to be touched and stimulated sexually
* increase the ability to have orgasms
* improve relationship and sexual satisfaction
* improve sleep
* increase self-esteem and improve body image
* provide sexual pleasure for people without partners, including the elderly
* provide sexual pleasure for people who choose to abstain from sex play with another person
* provide treatment for sexual dysfunction
* reduce stress
* release sexual tension
* relieve menstrual cramps and muscle tension
* strengthen muscle tone in the pelvic and anal areas, reducing women’s chances of involuntary urine leakage and uterine prolapse
So enjoy your life, and practice, practice, practice ;-)
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