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How do I love thee, masturbation...let me count the ways....
Well, get ready, because your long list of reasons to love masturbating just got even longer. (YAS, Queen!)
That's because upping your arousal—ideally ending in an orgasm—taps into several biological systems, says Adeeti Gupta, M.D., ob-gyn and founder of Walk In GYN Care in New York.
Consider this all the more reason to schedule a solo sesh tonight:
Tucking yourself into bed with an orgasm can definitely help you sleep better and deeper, says Gupta. This is likely due to a few different things, according to the experts.
“The stress relief from good sex or from masturbation can enhance sleep because it gets you into a good state—a less-stress state,” explains Nan Wise , Ph.D., a cognitive neuroscientist and certified sex therapist. Think of that feeling of zen calm that comes after getting yourself off as a post-sex lullaby.
According to the National Sleep Foundation , giving yourself an O also boosts your estrogen levels—a hormone that, among other things, deepens your restorative REM sleep.
Orgasms beget orgasms. Here’s why: “Jump-starting the engine” by masturbating creates physical arousal, which in turn revs your desire, explains Wise.
This process primes your brain for more action. “Neurons that fire together, wire together,” she says. “[By masturbating], you're strengthening those pathways in the brain, so that it becomes easier to turn that system on.”
Your solo sesh triggers an elaborate ballet of hormone activity in your brain. “That process involves an intricate release of serotonin and dopamine which is akin to the ‘happiness’ state of hormone balance,” explains Gupta. She calls it the “Brain-Vagina Connection.” Put simply, “happy events down there lead to happy events up in the brain,” Gupta says.
Masturbating has other brain benefits as well, says Wise. “With orgasm, there's a lot of activation in many areas of the brain, which means that a lot of oxygen is getting into the brain,” she says.
Generally speaking, the increased blood flow and oxygen that comes from upping your arousal—or from exercise—is thought to be good for your gray matter (crucial for everything from memory to decision-making). “It's kind of this circulatory exercise for the brain as well as for the body,” Wise explains. “What we're doing is giving the brain a nice, natural sort of flush out.”
Treating yourself to some below-the-belt self-love can actually help reduce pain, according to research. In one study of more than 800 patients published in the journal Cephalalgia , researchers found that sexual activity helped ease migraine pain in 60 percent of patients.
In another small study , sex researcher Beverly Whipple found that “vaginal self-stimulation” can significantly increase pain tolerance as well. When masturbation led to orgasm, it increased pain tolerance by 75 percent in study participants.
Achieving an orgasm isn’t always easy—in fact, sometimes it feels like a legit workout. Like any exercise, however, masturbating can help you build strength—specifically in your pelvic muscles, says Wise.
During masturbation, “the tendency is to have both spontaneous or involuntary contractions of those muscles,” she explains. “Like any muscle, when you’re using it, it gets stronger.”
The best part? Research has shown that women with stronger pelvic muscles have increased desire and stronger orgasms. (Dang this just keeps getting better!)
Getting it on solo can also be majorly therapeutic. “Chemicals that are released during pleasurable activities such as genital stimulation and orgasm”—chiefly, oxytocin—"are stress-relieving,” explains Wise.
This has major impacts on your health beyond your anxiety level, Wise says. “Stress is really bad for our health,” she explains. It is linked to everything from heart disease, to obesity, to depression, to impaired immune function.
It should come as no surprise, but women aren’t all alike when it comes to what gets them off. Research from Indiana University found that in terms of genital stimulation, women have diverse preferences in how they enjoy being touched. “The biggest benefit of masturbation is that a woman can understand what feels good for her. If she can’t communicate that, it can lead to problems with sexual function in a partnership,” says ob-gyn Leah Millheiser, M.D., Director of the Female Sexual Medicine Program at Stanford University School of Medicine.
She recommends using various methods of masturbation to help get you there: your hands, a vibrator, water from a bathtub or shower. If you’re a noob to the whole touching yourself thing, know that it can take time to figure out your hot spots. That’s okay—and part of the fun of it, she says.
Get ready to get zen. Women are often thinking about a million things at once (that work deadline, the laundry you need to get done, that birthday card you need to send, etc.), which means you may have a tough time focusing and actually enjoying the pleasure that comes with sex or masturbation. “Women often say, ‘I tried to masturbate but I couldn’t achieve orgasm because I was so stressed out’,” says Millheiser.
Here’s how to do it: Strike up a fantasy in your mind and focus on it. Practice yoga breathing and every time your mind wanders, bring it back to the fantasy. “This is a great mindful practice,” she says.
One survey of nearly 800 women published in the journal Psychology of Women Quarterly found that most said that masturbating helped them feel sexually empowered. Why? Well, in part, you’re not worrying about problems like pregnancy or pleasing your partner, say researchers. But also: “Masturbation can help women get over the lack of self-confidence and the belief that they cannot have satisfying sex,” says ob-gyn Adeeti Gupta, M.D ., who’s also a trained sex therapist and counselor at FusionGyn . "It’s empowering and gratifying for women to know what they need, so they can direct their partners to help them climax and have pleasurable sex.”
“Orgasms are really good for blood flow,” says Millheiser. That’s especially important for women on birth control pills, who are breastfeeding, or approaching menopause when blood flow can be compromised due to changing hormones. The result: less intense orgasms. Masturbation can help make your Os bigger and increase your natural lubrication to make sex more comfortable and enjoyable.
Consider this your excuse to schedule regular sessions with your vibrator—you know, for health reasons.
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Some people who marry do so in part "to contain," to quote Paul the Apostle.
But, for various reasons, many people end up in a sexless, or virtually sexless, marriage . Even if sex does take place, it may not be satisfying or satisfying enough. Sex surveys are notoriously unreliable, but the top complaint about marriage on Google is lack of sex, with "sexless marriage" entered into the search box eight times more often than "loveless marriage."
And then, of course, there are all those who are single, divorced , widowed, traveling, in prison, in quarantine, in self-isolation, and so on. Many of these people resort to masturbation , but even within a fulfilling sexual relationship, masturbation is, if anything, more common still.
Masturbation, or onanism, is the stimulation, often manual, of the genitals for sexual gratification. Masturbation is depicted in prehistoric cave paintings and has been observed in many animal species. In an Egyptian myth, the god Atum created the universe by masturbating, and every year the Egyptian pharaoh ritually masturbated into the Nile. In some traditional cultures, masturbation is a right of passage into manhood, although there are some groups, notably in the Congo Basin, that lack a word for the activity and are confused by the concept.
Alternative and divergent sexual practices such as masturbation and same-sex love are associated with periods of peace and prosperity. In unstable times with high infant mortality, the spilling of semen may be perceived as unnecessary, extravagant, or wasteful: Although ejaculation is a rite of passage for young men of the Sambia tribe in New Guinea, it is brought about by fellatio so that the semen can be ingested rather than spilt.
The Ancient Greeks regarded masturbation as entirely normal, if more the province of the common man, since the elites had a duty to further the family line, and, beyond that, had slaves for their relief.
The Christian tradition adopted an altogether different view of masturbation, rooted in an obscure passage of the Book of Genesis. When God killed Er, Er’s father Judah ordered his second son Onan to marry Er’s widow Tamar and "raise up seed" to his brother. But when he lied with Tamar, Onan spilled his semen on the ground—no doubt because he knew that fathering a son in his brother’s line would cost him the larger part of his inheritance. This displeased God, "wherefore He slew him also." This parable is largely responsible for the Church’s prohibition on both masturbation and contraception.
In his Medicinal Dictionary (1743), the physician Robert James, a friend of Samuel Johnson, wrote of masturbation that, "There is perhaps no sin productive of so many hideous consequences." More subtly, in the Metaphysics of Morals (1797), the philosopher Immanuel Kant argued that "a man gives up his personality ... when he uses himself merely as a means for the gratification of an animal drive."
In his influential treatise on education (1762), the philosopher and Romantic trailblazer Jean-Jacques Rousseau advised that a tutor should not leave his pupil the slightest opportunity to engage in masturbation:
Therefore, watch carefully over the young man; he can protect himself from all other foes, but it is for you to protect him against himself. Never leave him night or day, or at least share his room; never let him go to bed till he is sleepy , and let him rise as soon as he wakes ... If once he acquires this dangerous supplement he is lost. From then on, body and soul will be enervated; he will carry to the grave the sad effects of this habit, the most fatal habit which a young man can be subjected to.
This seems to be a case of "do as I say, not as I do." In his Confessions (1782), Rousseau admitted to having discovered masturbation while traveling in Italy, returning "a different person from the one who had gone there":
[There I] learnt of that dangerous means of cheating Nature, which leads young men of my temperament to various kinds of excesses, that eventually imperil their health, and sometimes their lives. This vice, which shame and timidity find so convenient, has a particular attraction for lively imaginations. It allows them to dispose, so to speak, of the whole female sex at their will, and to make any beauty who tempts them serve their pleasure without the need of first obtaining her consent.
In the 19th century, Jean-Etienne Esquirol, an eminent psychiatrist and physician-in-chief at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, declared in his classification of mental disorders that masturbation is "recognized in all countries as a cause of insanity," and it was not until as late as 1968 that it finally fell out of the American classification of mental disorders. In 1972, the American Medical Association pronounced it to be normal, but the guilt , shame, and stigma live on to this day.
In 1994, the US Surgeon General, Joycelyn Elders, had to resign after opining, in the context of preventing young people from enga
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