April 2023

It’s generally accepted that all people will masturbate at some point in their lives. There shouldn’t be any shame in that. However, when you’re in a committed relationship it’s also generally assumed that there’s no longer a reason for masturbation to occur. Why use your hand when you can have the real thing? This is

It’s well known in medical and psychoanalytic circles that as men age, they often prefer masturbation to intercourse. Why? Because masturbation is about release, not performance. Because many older men experience some degree of erectile dysfunction, anything that removes the pressure of building and maintaining the solid erection necessary for intercourse sounds (to the man)

Few things are as personal as the decisions you make about your sex life. Choosing when to have sex and with whom is a private process, and everyone comes to their own choices about sex. Some people enjoy a full sex life, while others choose to abstain from some or all sexual activity. There are

Onania, as the tract came to be known, sold like hotcakes. By the turn of the century, all of industrialized Europe and North America viewed masturbation as a sin with spiritual and physical ramifications. Intellectuals such as C.G Salzmann, Samuel Tissot, Johann Zimmermann, Immanuel Kant, and Sigmund Freud, among others, wrote of its dangers. The