Archive for April, 2008
A LITTLE HISTORY
Sunday, April 27, 2008 21:56 No CommentsHistorians are always looking for a new lens through which to view and understand the past. The modern history of popular sentiment toward masturbation offers a fascinating perspective on our culture. Having an idea of the depth of feeling against masturbation in general and female masturbation in particular, we may better understand why women have [...]
WHAT WE WIN FROM MASTURBATION
Sunday, April 27, 2008 21:56 No CommentsCould the full-voiced women in this book give up the joy of masturba-tion? There is always some risk. Could men? Never. The fact that men masturbate is a given, as obvious as the penis between their legs. Mother may not like it when her little boy touches his penis; she tsk-tsks and takes his hand [...]
THE MOTHER/DAUGHTER DEAL
Sunday, April 27, 2008 21:55 No CommentsMasturbation is a great teacher.
Alas, it’s one I did not have growing up. No one I knew admitted to masturbation or discussed it. Confused and often incorrect as our ideas on sex with boys were, the language and vocabulary of sex all by ourselves didn’t exist. Nor do I remember any punishment or words spoken [...]
HOW MASTURBATION HELPS MEN SEPARATE LOVE AND SEX
Sunday, April 27, 2008 21:55 No CommentsMen’s deals with mother influence and distort their sexual lives too, but they don’t demand the sacrifice of masturbation, of the freedom to choose whether to touch themselves or not. Indeed, masturbation was one of the best tools the man had as a boy in learning emotional separation from mother.
He may begin life in love [...]
THE NICE GIRL RULES
Sunday, April 27, 2008 21:54 No CommentsAs for the girl being held and kissed in the moonlight, how is she to know that part of what she is feeling is sexual? Nothing has ever happened to her to help her single out, isolate the sexual feeling from all the other emotions and sensations racing through her adolescent mind and body. She [...]
THE SWEPT AWAY PHENOMENON
Sunday, April 27, 2008 21:54 No CommentsThis is what the sex education textbooks call it. “I wanted to be swept away,” a sentence heard so often from women with unintended pregnancies that it has become the name of the malady.
The women whose fantasies fill this book sound like a new generation, one that is immune to the Swept Away Phenomenon. Many [...]
HOW MUCH HAVE WE REALLY CHANGED?
Sunday, April 27, 2008 21:53 No CommentsIt is important to distinguish the three levels of change: attitudes change most easily. Behavior follows at a slower pace. But our deep, unconscious feelings about what is right and wrong require generations to change, if they change at all.
We angrily deny that our own grown-up sexual behavior has anything to do with mother. As [...]
THE CLOACA CONCEPT
Sunday, April 27, 2008 21:52 No CommentsWhat makes learning to masturbate so difficult late in life is that we have been raised to believe that the area between our legs is untouchable, dirty. We have come to loathe the sight and smell of our genitals, which are to be touched only in the process of wiping ourselves clean. It is an [...]
WHAT IS A REAL WOMAN?
Sunday, April 27, 2008 21:51 No CommentsYou, the women who have encouraged me to continue thinking and writing about sex, tell me how much strength and self-knowledge you gain from your sexuality, and you say you understand the importance of masturbation. “A person’s masturbation seems so, well, ‘secret,’ “ one of you writes me. “It’s about the most intimate thing one [...]
A WORD ABOUT THE WOMEN AND THEIR FANTASIES
Sunday, April 27, 2008 21:51 No Commentsndividual women have always tried to break out of the traditional constraints placed on women’s sexuality, but in so doing, they did not feel any kinship or solidarity with femininity as a whole. They were adventuresses, scorning other women as tame and submissive. They may have been courageous, but they were alone in their desires, [...]


