Solitary and heterosexual behaviors

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Solitary and heterosexual behaviors

• Masturbation
• Fantasy
• Shared sexual behavior

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Masturbation

• Historical and religious views
• A statistical analysis
• Myths and facts

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Historical and religious views

• Practiced by many ancient peoples
• Greek and Egyptian artwork (Fig.7.2)
• Diogenes praise of masturbation
• Not explicitly mentioned in Scripture
• Forbidden in Talmud for men
• A capital offense
• Some Scriptures have been applied to masturbation

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The modern era

• S.A.D. Tissot (1741) Onanism and the
  medicalization of sex
• Victorian concerns with health
• Loss of stamina and energy
• Stress on the nervous system
• Imbalance of fluids
• Krafft-Ebing linked masturbation with insanity

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The Victorians and child-rearing

• Children are not naturally sexual.
• They learn sexual interest through evil
  companions.
• Alarms would alert the parents if the child
  touched his penis
• Cages were available to keep hands away
• Spiked rings produced pain if an erection
  occurred Nocturnal emissions were wrong, too.

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The American variant Health foods

• Sylvester Graham, C.W. Post, and Harvey Kellogg
• The Boy Scout Handbook warned against
  masturbation until the late 1970s

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Current religious views

• Judaism Varies with branch
• Islam A sin
• Roman Catholicism An intrinsically and
  seriously disordered act.
• Mainline Protestantism Not a moral issue
• Conservative Protestantism In disarray.
• Tson and Hayford vs. Dobson
• Houghton College Counseling Center

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Current social views

• The last taboo Woody Allen and Jerry Seinfeld
• NHSLS (1994) special methodology
• OK unless done to excess
• Could be inappropriate -- especially if married
• 50 of practitioners feel guilty afterward
• Why?

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A statistical analysis

• More men (gt90) than women (65-89)
• More education--gtmore masturbation
• White, educated liberals most likely to
• Devoutly religious folks masturbate less
• 18-24 year olds masturbate less than 25-54 year
  olds
• 50 of each gender feel guilty about it, but
  guilt inhibits masturbation only in women

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More statistics

• 85 of men and 45 of women married or cohabiting
  had masturbated in the past twelve months
• 60 of men and 40 of women overall had
  masturbated in the past twelve months
• Conclusion?

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NHSLS reasons for masturbation

• Reason
  Men Women
• To relax
  26 32
• To relieve sexual tension 73
  63
• Partners unavailable 32
  32
• Partner unwilling 16
  6
• Boredom
  11 5
• Physical pleasure 40
  42
• Get to sleep
  16 12
• Fear of AIDS or other STDs 5
  5

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Fantasy

• Primary fantasy
• Fantasy to facilitate masturbation
• When is it lust?
• Shared fantasy for sexual arousal

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Shared sexual behavior

• Touching When is it sexual?
• Hugging and kissing
• Caressing, fondling, stroking skin
• Genital stimulation
• Manual
• Oral Fellatio and cunnilingus
• Genital Dry-docking

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Intercourse

• Vaginal Significant risk for HIV transmission
• Anal High risk for HIV transmission
• Surface
• Interfemoral
• Intermammary
• Intergluteal
• 1001 Positions

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Appeal of various sexual practices, NHSLS, ages
18-44

• ( rating very or somewhat appealing)
• Practice Women Men
• Vaginal intercourse 96 95
• Watching partner disrobe 81 93
• Receiving oral sex 68 83
• Giving oral sex 57 76
• Anal intercourse 5 14

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Caveats for oral-genital contact

• Basic hygeine is essential
• STDs, including HIV can be transmitted
• Non-STD infections may also occur
• Bacterial infections of the throat
• Infections of the genitals from mouth bacteria
• Semen from infected prostates may be dangerous
• Do not blow!
• The effectiveness of barriers is unknown.