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18 May 2000                Email
Vol. 1, Issue 88            On the web
 
 
 
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May is National Masturbation Month
 
...yes, it is really amazing how uptight the culture is around masturbation.  My sense is that we hide sexual shame in masturbation, as a culture and as individuals.  We claim to "like sex" or "love sex" or "want sex" but then when masturbation appears, we are in very shameful territory, and this is the heart of the matter where sexual repression is concerned...
 
How many of us can really say, "Well, talk to you later, I'm off to masturbate now!"
...I have found that finding out about how people feel about masturbation is a kind of hologram about how they feel about life -- including how they/we feel about sharing this daring sport with others.  What, after all, is the big deal?
 
--Eric Francis eric@planetwaves.net
 
 
i think the "big deal" is the ability to claim and be the author of one's own pleasure.  therein lies great power.  to not need anyone to feel pleasure, to feel good.  we are conditioned to believe that pleasure is only just when it's being given to us or when we're giving it away.  but to hold
our own pleasure within our hands, oh no, this might just lead to thinking, "Gee if I can create this than what else I can do for myself?"  think independently for one.  it's a very powerful threshold to cross.
 
--Mel Clark phyllsgirl@hotmail.com
 

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