Hindustan Times
May The Wank Be With You
Here’s a short post on masturbation.
“Doctor please help me. I am addicted to masturbation. I do it at least three times a day, sometimes even more. I can’t help it; the desire to do it just takes over. Now I think it is affecting my penis – which is looking run down and isn’t as erect as it used to be. Do you think I can have a normal married life?”
How many times have you read something like that in an agony aunt column? Seems like forever doesn’t it. 
Even today, ostensibly at an age where we are supposed to have information at our fingertips, many tormented souls feel guilty about touching themselves for erotic pleasure. Time was – when I was in school – old wives tales abounded about how masturbation caused all kinds of ailments like blindness and insanity, including (don’t know why I remember this!) hairy palms. If this were true, think of how many blind insane people with hairy palms we would have running around in the streets.
Why can’t things change…or have they? Consider a study I saw the other day in the Journal for Sexual Medicine on vibrator usage in America. Apparently, more than 50 per cent of adults there use vibrators. More specifically, 50 per cent of women use vibrators and surprisingly 45 per cent of men use them too. It of course transpires that a large portion of the male category use the vibrators on their women. But still, as much as 17 per cent use vibrators for self-stimulation – read masturbation.
Masturbation will always be a popular option
The study found that while vibrators are often hidden in sock drawers or beneath the bed, their use is a sign of a healthy sexual life. In fact, women who use vibrators were more likely to have had a gynecological exam during the past year and to have performed genital self-examination. These very same women also reported having better sex as well as experiencing higher sexual desire.
Men too fared much the same. The study says those men who use vibrators were more likely to report participation in sexual health promoting behaviors, such as testicular self-exam. In fact, the same men again scored much higher (than others who don’t use vibrators) on factors used to measure sexual function like erectile function, intercourse satisfaction, orgasmic function and sexual desire.
It’s an interesting study because it opens up a whole new front for masturbatory sex. Think about it: a vibrator is mostly used for (except when men use it on women) solo sex. Could then it be that as much as 50 per cent of America is dysfunctional and mainly gets off through the vibrations of a battery-induced sex toy? I don’t know. What it clearly shows is that more and more people use masturbation for sexual relief and aren’t labeled losers, despite popular derogatory terms like “wanker” and “jerk-off”.
Now if only those dorks in the agony aunt columns could get to know about this….
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Natasha Reply:
July 28th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
The survey is bang on. Women masturbate — and they do it a lot believe me. Most women cannot orgasm through penis penetration and need some clitoral stimulation. Sadly that is something that most Indian men are pretty inept at. Frankly I own two vibrators and I’ve been married for the last two years. Don’t know what I would have done without them
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Raju Reply:
July 29th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Can women have orgasm through nipple stimulation?
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rakesh Reply:
July 29th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
although digrees may vary,some of the women are super sensitive on nipples.but i doubt that its stimulation alone can lead to orgasm.
Raju Reply:
July 29th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Women can have multiple Orgasm. A man can at most have 3-10 orgasms within a day. But a woman can have almost 1000 orgasms within a day. So she could actually masturbate – clitoris or nipple – for 24 hours with 1000 orgasms.
varsha Reply:
July 31st, 2009 at 10:03 pm
wow! thousand orgasms! never had 1000 , but 5-6 in a day, yes..hahaha…
anyway, are these vibrator things available in india at all? or do they go against our great indian culture as does everything else…
seriously though i have never seen any agony aunt column or even any womens magazine touching the topic of female masturbation. hmmm why?
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Tia Reply:
August 1st, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Varsha.. iv looked for vibrators in bombay, and u do get them.. but (atleast the ones i found) were terrrrible !!
Nothing like whats available abroad. what i found looked (and felt) exactly like what it was – a cold hard rocket shaped piece of plastic. Quite a disappointment. Its a pity that i cant ask my “foreign-return” relatives to put it on their shopping list along with the MnS lingerie !
Tsk Tsk …
rakesh Reply:
August 3rd, 2009 at 8:16 am
poor indian women,after they had to tolerate childish indian males(average,at least sexually),they dont find solace even in artificial things.btw i hv taught 2 of my girlfriends how to use the fingures creatively,and believe me it can be true magic,specially if u play with G spot as well simultaneously.
as males say…apna haath jagannath
women can say…..apni fingure,miraacle
cheers
Saurav Ganguly Reply:
August 3rd, 2009 at 9:19 pm
lol yea you cant definitely ask your foreigh relatives to bring it with them! haha thats a hillarious observation btw. Imagine saying: yea I would like an extra large Dildo, make sure it is extra large! lol I am cracking up at the expected reaction.
Funny Tia.
Atul Reply:
August 2nd, 2009 at 11:04 am
The dorks in the agony aunt columns know everything…..
their call sign is is ..wank wank, wink wink, wank wank, wink wink………!! =:)
Raju Reply:
August 3rd, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Varsha,
Why don’t you try to continously masturbate for say 6 hours and see how many orgasms you can have…I am sure not less than 100.