Masturbation's Shame Research Paper

Willow Pierce
Ms. Baird
October 4th, 2012
Period 4
Masturbation 's Shame “It 's something people don 't talk about, but almost everyone does it: Masturbation.” (Handerson). Imagine this: you are in your room and you feel ashamed. You have many friends who you know will judge you if they find out. You stop, guilty and ashamed of yourself for what you did. “Some people who masturbate feel ashamed or embarrassed about it. This is partly because masturbation has been wrongly labeled as deviant, dangerous, and sinful.” (BetterHealth). Masturbation has shown to to have many health benefits, but many are ashamed to do or talk about this “forbidden act” because of how they will be viewed and how they will be judged. Males and females both benefit
To others it is something shameful, embarrassing, sinful, and something to be guilty about. In my confusion, I wondered to myself: Why is it so embarrassing? It is natural. According to BetterHealth, masturbation releases these “opiod-like neurotransmitters”, which make us feel good mentally and physically without being sexual. Here is something else masturbation can effect: Stress. BetterHealth has also said that masturbation is a stress reducer on our body, making us feel less stressed. Can 't fall asleep? Yvonne Fulbright 's article “The Health Benefits of Masturbation” shows that masturbation is natural sleep sedative. Good-bye sleeping pills! However, while these are some of the health benefits in general, men and women have their own individual health
Masturbation has dated back far before today 's society, where now today, we have learned that not only is it healthy and won 't give you hairy palms, but it is beginning to be accepted into society with open arms. I 'm sure that now with all our new technologies with new things being discovered each day, we are able to learn and know all sorts of things without the use of books. Masturbation is only one of the many things we have made many advances and discoveries about. But because of these discoveries, it has prevented serious violence and worry among society. While masturbation is not fully accepted, but making baby-steps towards it, people who are ignorant to most of the aspects of masturbation target people who do masturbate and treat them like they are sick people with their ignorance. I believe that if we we made the fact that masturbation is healthy for you, be it school or something else, I would like to think it would prevent unnecessary