What is Masturbation?

When an orgasm is produced by manual stimulation of the genitals it is called masturbation. Masturbation is one of the first primal forms of sexual behavior usually experienced when very young.Masturbation is a natural and healthy method of sexual release engaged in by most people of both sexes.

Masturbation was considered a sin in the late 1800's and the early part of the last century. Before the 1960s, excessive masturbation was considered a mental condition, fixating on immature or undesirable behavior, leading to lack of adult responses.

In today's current sexual climate, where people are discovering themselves as well as each other masturbation can be an important and pleasurable activity for people, no matter whether you are in a short or long term sexual relationship. Often it can add more happiness and sensuality to your whole sexual dimension.

In this time of sexual disease people who are single continue to have normal sex drives. The safest, easiest sexual relief and pleasurable satisfaction available to us can be masturbation. In fact, masturbation is the safest form of sex there is.

Many feel that the practice of masturbation makes one impotent (however not true) and hence many fear to do the same. Masturbation is done when one is in a mental state of having sex but may not have a partner to have sex or their partner is not in the mood. Masturbation is done to get the feeling of orgasm which is the feeling that one experiences during sexual intercourse.

Masturbation is a healthy way to satisfy one’s sexual feelings or sexual desires. Normally while masturbating one may be fantasying or thinking about his/ her partner. Masturbation can not be done at any particular age, for men 15 years- 16 years is the age when he can or may be able to masturbate. However this is early for ladies as their physical growth is also faster as compared to men. Ladies may be able to masturbate as early as the time they start their menstruation period this may be anything between 12 years to 15 years.

No matter you are a male of female, you should try to find a safe place when you are going to masturbate. You should try to make sure that you will not be disturbed during masturbation. To this end the bathroom can be a good choice.

You should be relaxed when you are masturbating. Masturbation is meant to be fun and relaxing. You should never do it in a hurry. This is even more important for men. A man may develop premature ejaculation if he always rushes to finish masturbation.

You may even use some sex toys to help you to masturbate. For female, you may certainly try various vibrators. The dildos can also be good choices. You should visit some sex toy stores to explore various kinds of toys for your masturbation. For male, you can use toys such as the penis pump and the virtual vagina. Both of them are very popular choices for male masturbation.

Although it is very normal to masturbate, you should also be noted that there is something called compulsive masturbation. It is just like a kind of addition and it is usually considered anomaly if you develop compulsive masturbation. Medical help may be needed in this case.