WHY is masturbation frowned upon? WHY! WHYYYYY!?!?!?!?! WHHYYYYY?!?!?!
Amidst my glorious research on the taboos and challenges within sexual health education, I have drafted a series of questions that I, as I am sure you also, ponder.
If masturbation is a safe sexual practice that poses no threat to the individual (threat in this case being unwanted pregnancy or an STI), then why is it something that schools are so afraid to teach?
If masturbation is a healthy way to explore one’s body, then why is it seen as shameful?
If men are wasting their seed, what are women doing that is ‘wrong’?
Shouldn’t everyone have the right to touch his/her own body?
What’s so ‘bad’ about masturbation?
What’s so bad about teaching, informing, and exploring issues surrounding autonomous safe sex (masturbation, cybersex, fantasy)?
In short, masturbation is fantastic. You want kids to avoid STIs and unwanted pregnancy? Encourage, embrace, educate about, and enjoy MASTURBATION!
Use a condom Charlie Brown!
Step one?
Youtube knows safe sex!
Bingo!
Sex education in popular culture
- The 40 year old Virgin
- S&M by Rhianna
- The Late night Sex show
- The Purity Myth: How America's obsession with virginity is hurting young women
- Laid: Young People's Experiences with Sex in an Easy-Access Culture
- The Abstinence Teacher
- The Purity Pledge
- The Magdalene Sisters
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Skipped Parts
- Thanks for Coming: One young woman's quest for an orgasm
- Mean Girls
- Britney Spears