Similarly to Karrie in the lecture I found myself feeling embarrassed when it come to the words used in replacement for masturbation, half of which I had never heard! I also agree that reasoning to why people may feel uncomfortable when it comes to masturbation is religion. As stated throughout history Christianity has told how 'sexual fantasies are forbidden' in turn making masturbation a sin.
An alternative reason why masturbation may be a topic of awkwardness is the media it receives in films. In films such as 'American Pie' masturbating is a behaviour which creates embarrassment to the individual doing it. It is portrayed as an alternative to someone unable to obtain a sexual partner, this therefore enforces the ideology that masturbation is shameful.
In comparison the only aspect of the blog I did not agree with was the belief that society should be more open to the idea of masturbation. If you a person was to masturbate in public, this would be a criminal offence due to indecent exposure, personally I believe this presents how the behaviour may not be bad but some form of discretion should come with it. Contradictory to this however, if two people were to have sex outside again this is indecent exposure yet people will more openly talk about sex then they will masturbation.
Overall masturbation is not bad, however similarly to being on the toilet, other people and society do not need to know what you are doing.
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