Female Maturbation: It feels good and it's good for us.

A lot of people still wonder, ‘If masturbation feels so good, can it really be bad for me?’ When really they should be asking, ‘As masturbation feels so good, can it also be good for me?’

The answer to the second question is a resounding ‘Yes’. [The answer to the first question is, of course, a resounding ‘no’.]

The old, false beliefs that masturbation makes you blind, mad, insensitive, insane or lethargic; can be replaced with these truthful pluses of masturbation. Masturbation is good for you; it makes you skin great and benefits your overall health. It improves your circulation, boosts your immune system and slaps a big smile on your face. It can be a wonderful way to unwind and relax and release stored-up tension. It’s also the safest form of sex; you can’t get pregnant or acquire a sexually transmitted disease from it.

With masturbation we can express love for ourselves. If a part of yourself recoils at the thought of loving yourself, because it’s considered bad in some way; realise that you can’t love anybody else until you have learnt to love yourself first (how can you if you’ve never experienced what it feels like). True. Additionally, ask yourself why it is okay to love other people, but not yourself? Let me clear-up a common misconception around self-love. People who commit heinous crimes are not those who love themselves too much; when people are referring to people who ‘love themselves too much’, they don’t mean true self-love; what they’re actually referring to are the personality traits (bragging, conceit, etc), which manifest in an attempt to cover-up self-hate. These people hate themselves because they have not learned to love themselves. They don’t love themselves because they’ve been told from an early age that to do so is evil, or they’ve never experienced love from parents who were also caught-up in the trap of believing that self-love is wrong.

Masturbation can help raise our self-esteem, by allowing us to explore and accept our bodies. Self-esteem is another positive character trait that has been given a negative press. People with high self-esteem (definition: feeling competent to live and worthy of living), are not the murderers, rapists and criminals of this world. They value their own lives too much; and because they value their own lives, they are able to value the lives of others. Plus, they’re too busy getting on with their own lives to mess it up by committing a crime. Self-esteem is essential to happiness and self-fulfilment and whilst it is not the focus of this blog, I’m made up that masturbation has a nurturing part to play in building self-esteem.

So, now you know. Masturbation not only feels good; it’s also good for us.