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How To Avoid Feelings of Guilt or Shame Every Time You Masturbate
When will we finally look beyond dirty?
Lily Tomlin offers a clever argument: “We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.”
According to World’s Largest Masturbation Survey, 92 percent of American men do it, but people think only 83 percent of men do. And 76 percent of American women do it, but people think 66 percent of women do. An average person masturbates three times a week.
You will forget these statistics soon. You may feel comfortable for a few weeks when you masturbate. But then, somebody will say something that may agree with your prior conditioning, and you’ll remember that it is dirty.
Mark Twain, writing On Masturbation, says, “The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories — and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.”
But everything involving masturbation has been given a negative twist. I quote Neil Gaiman:
“I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told…
