I think that is was a very embarrassing subject to discuss. Especially in a class room of about 40 people and i think everyone else would agree with what am saying. Talking about masturbation was uncomfortable for me. Many years ago masturbation was frowned up on. Many religions, especially the Catholic Church, regard masturbation as an expression of sin. Sin is a difficult concept to understand, whether you want to accept it or not. Many Christians regard masturbation as a sin, a temptation by the devil or a weakness of the soul. http://mwillett.org/mind/masturbate.htm. Time has changed and so have peoples opinions. Some people are not embarrassed to talk about masturbation. I found the lecture interesting how back in the day there was things men used to wear to stop them from masturbating. These pictures were funny but looked every uncomfortable. Just by looking at people in this lecture it looked like people felt really uncomfortable with the conversation. In the lecture we also looked at a survey that was done by both men and women. Before we got the answers most of us thought that the questions answered were more by men. I found the results shocking that most of the answers about masturbating were answered by women and only one was answered by a man. In my opinion i always thought that men masturbate more than women because the always look at porn and are not embarrassed to talk about it to their friends. I think girl are more private and maybe they might feel a bit uncomfortable talking to other people about masturbation.
http://mwillett.org/mind/masturbate.htm
http://mwillett.org/mind/masturbate.htm
I think you're right. Many people in the class did seem uncomfortable talking about the big 'taboo'of masturbation. I, however, was n ot one of them :)
ReplyDeleteIt's understandable that not everyone is going to feel comfortable getting into a conversation about something like this, but there wasn't much discussion involved on our part.
Personally, I think the idea that men always look at porn and women are more private is sexist and pretty old fashioned. After all, the majority of people in the porn industry are women...