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Friday is the first day of the 20th annual National Masturbation Month
The holiday was started one year after Dr. Joycelyn Elders, the U.S. surgeon general at the time, was fired for saying that masturbation was “something that perhaps should be taught.”
Which begs the question: How is our culture of getting off currently getting on?
“If one thing has really changed about self-pleasure, it’s that the stigma has been lifted,” says New York-based clinical psychologist and sexpert Dr. Belisa Vranich who advises everyone to mix up their routines this May. Currently, 7.9% of women between the ages of 25 and 29 masturbate two to three times per week versus 23.4% of men, according to Indiana University’s National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior.
(Ladies, let’s please start catching up.)
Part of the reason the act is more acceptable now is that technology has collectively taken so many people far out of their comfort zones. Think about it, Vranich says: Skype sex is just two people masturbating separated by computer screens. Read more...
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