Did you know that May is officially Masturbation Month? Well, you do now!
You might be thinking, “a whole month dedicated to masturbation. Why!?” Well, because wanking is an awesome thing to celebrate! But there’s more to it than that. So what else is this Masturbation Month thing all about?
Right now, masturbation is the safest sex we can have
I mean, technically that’s always true. But it’s especially true in the time of COVID-19. Right now the only sex we should be having is with ourselves, with the partners we live with, or conducted via virtual means. (Not Zoom though, I beg you.)
Aaaaaand my blog goes back to being a Corona-free zone… now.
The fact remains, though: masturbation is the safest form of sex, both physically and emotionally.
Your only lifelong sexual partner is you
The one person you can always rely on to be there? YOU! So just as it makes sense to cultivate strong emotional self-reliance, the same is true sexually. Learning your own body, what makes you tick and what gets you off, is an incredible gift to yourself. It means you’ll always be able to have a banging sex life, regardless of access to (or interest in) partnered sex.
Masturbation is still ridiculously stigmatised…
This is still especially true for women and those assigned female at birth. The myths surrounding masturbation are often kinda bonkers!
Anti-masturbation sentiment also runs rampant in certain religious communities, with religious thinkers prescribing everything from showering with the door open to eating a snack every time you get horny to folding fucking laundry to curb the desire to masturbate.
But there’s also a secular community dedicated to the supposed evils of masturbation. The NoFap community is a bizarre corner of the internet where people who think they’re “addicted” to porn or masturbation go to discuss their attempts to give up masturbation.
…but it doesn’t need to be!
Here are the facts: masturbation, in the overwhelming majority of cases, is healthy, natural, and good for you. It has positive physical and mental health benefits. It is ONLY a problem if it is negatively interefering with other areas of your life.
Masturbation addiction (and sex addiction) are not real things.
Masturbation does not harm relationships, it is not cheating, and it doesn’t “ruin” you for partnered sex. In fact, it can make your partnered sex better!
We are all entitled to pleasure
We are all entitled to experience pleasure without shame, guilt or reproval. Masturbation is about pleasure, and Masturbation Month celebrates that. Our bodies are capable of giving us incredible pleasure. We are allowed to revel in it, to enjoy it, to celebrate it.
Happy Masturbation Month!
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There used to be a really fun Facebook group featuring Fappy the Anti-Masturbation Dolphin. At first I thought it was a serious no-fap group, but quickly realised it was a parody poking fun at the no-fappers. Don’t know if it’s still there. Up until that point I didn’t realise that was even a thing. I mean, we’re English so we just never talked about it, but I had no idea there was a whole community actively campaigning against it. It’s so weird, like campaigning against going to the toilet!
YES! 🙌
Thinking about my self as one of my sexual partners was pretty revolutionary for me – really changed that way I felt about masturbation and self-pleasure.