Spanking the monkey, Bashing the Bishop, Knocking one out, Tugging the meat whistle, Jacking off.... Whatever you want to call it - Quite simply, it's Masturbation.
And I think it's fair to say - we all do it or we have all at least tried it.
Yet...judging from the titters and giggles situated in all areas of the lecture theatre, we find it absolutely hilarious. So much so, that when we were asked to discuss it as a class, many people refrained from using "sexual" terms if they were even brave enough to speak out about it. One girl in particular paused every time she needed to use the words "penis" or "vagina".
Another interesting point I perceived in the lecture was the significant amount of participants unwilling to contribute answers to the zapper questions. In my opinion this was daft - what am I going to care how many times my neighbour masturbates a week?! It was just a bit of light hearted fun and something to make the lecture a little less tedious.
To be honest I'd be more worried if they didn't touch themselves.
77 of us answered the first question - "What is your gender?" and only 56 of us answered the last question - "What sort of equipment do you use to help you masturbate?"
In my opinion masturbation must be a good thing. It allows us to push our sexual boundaries in a comfortable atmosphere, as well as allowing us to learn what pleases us sexually. Playing with ourselves is a pleasurable free past time which does not pass on disease or seek to hurt people.
Some scientists are even doing research to prove how masturbating may help protect against prostate cancer - http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3942-masturbating-may-protect-against-prostate-cancer.html
Yet, some people still see masturbation as a lustful and therefore sinful act, as portrayed in many religious texts, e.g. The Bible.
True, it is wasteful. But, for example if men don't ejaculate on a regular basis it leads to wet dreams. These are a natural rejection of the sperm from the body, so why isn't this wasteful? I can imagine it is embarrassing. Or, to look at it in another way - One man produces around 40 million to 600 million spermies in one ejaculation - and it only takes one to fertilize an egg. So is the 599 million that are left unfertilized wasteful? And as a man produces 369.6 litres in his lifetime, that would make sex very, very wasteful, never mind masturbation.
Many people still cringe at the thought of it. In some respects; modern views on sex are rather contraversal and hypocritical. We can't talk openly about having sex and masturbating but we're quite happy to hurry home and slip between the sheets.
And I think it's fair to say - we all do it or we have all at least tried it.
Yet...judging from the titters and giggles situated in all areas of the lecture theatre, we find it absolutely hilarious. So much so, that when we were asked to discuss it as a class, many people refrained from using "sexual" terms if they were even brave enough to speak out about it. One girl in particular paused every time she needed to use the words "penis" or "vagina".
Another interesting point I perceived in the lecture was the significant amount of participants unwilling to contribute answers to the zapper questions. In my opinion this was daft - what am I going to care how many times my neighbour masturbates a week?! It was just a bit of light hearted fun and something to make the lecture a little less tedious.
To be honest I'd be more worried if they didn't touch themselves.
77 of us answered the first question - "What is your gender?" and only 56 of us answered the last question - "What sort of equipment do you use to help you masturbate?"
In my opinion masturbation must be a good thing. It allows us to push our sexual boundaries in a comfortable atmosphere, as well as allowing us to learn what pleases us sexually. Playing with ourselves is a pleasurable free past time which does not pass on disease or seek to hurt people.
Some scientists are even doing research to prove how masturbating may help protect against prostate cancer - http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3942-masturbating-may-protect-against-prostate-cancer.html
Yet, some people still see masturbation as a lustful and therefore sinful act, as portrayed in many religious texts, e.g. The Bible.
True, it is wasteful. But, for example if men don't ejaculate on a regular basis it leads to wet dreams. These are a natural rejection of the sperm from the body, so why isn't this wasteful? I can imagine it is embarrassing. Or, to look at it in another way - One man produces around 40 million to 600 million spermies in one ejaculation - and it only takes one to fertilize an egg. So is the 599 million that are left unfertilized wasteful? And as a man produces 369.6 litres in his lifetime, that would make sex very, very wasteful, never mind masturbation.
Many people still cringe at the thought of it. In some respects; modern views on sex are rather contraversal and hypocritical. We can't talk openly about having sex and masturbating but we're quite happy to hurry home and slip between the sheets.
I think that people need to totally get over it. All the gigglin in the class was a bit much...although I am a contagious giggler...when someone else does it, I just have to join in. lol. But I do think masturbation is something that people need to be more comfortable with. I think that the reason a lot of people didn't anwser the last question because if you don't masturbate, then you don't use a tool and I dont think their was an option for N/A. Maybe the professor was trying to trip some people up. haha.
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