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SEXUAL HEALTH INDEX
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Masturbation [Self Pleasuring, Solo Sex]
Masturbation describes the act of stimulating your own genital organs for sexual pleasure, arousal and release.
Young children manipulate their genitals because it feels nice, but masturbation for sexual purposes usually begins at the onset of puberty between the ages of 11 and 15, or later. Some people never masturbate because of lack of desire, and cultural or religious beliefs, guilt, modesty, and inhibitions which can make people resist the natural urge to stimulate themselves.
Masturbating is a natural peak experience available to all men and women. It is believed by some people that masturbation is bad for one's health, but there is no evidence that it causes physical or mental harm. Masturbation can be seen as increasing a person's knowledge about his/her own body, in fact women who have experienced orgasm through masturbation rarely have difficulty with reaching orgasm in adult relationships.
Masturbation may be practiced by those who have a regular sexual partner because of difference in desire for sex, or because the partner is unavailable due to illness, or menstruation or stress.
See: Sexual Myths
