Masturbation, the act of self-pleasuring, is a topic that when brought up, can elicit many different views and opinions. In general, masturbation is viewed as taboo, a sexual act that should not be brought up, and if one participates in this sexual activity, then it should be kept in private, even though it is natural and mostly harmless act that many individuals have participated in at some point in their lives. There are many factors that contribute to peoples view on masturbation, factors such as culture, education, environment and family structure. Masturbation is such a broad topic that is why the study of masturbation can be approached in different disciplines. When it comes to the social sciences discipline, this paper will explore masturbation
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To further expand on that, Robert Darby, the author of The masturbation taboo and the rise of routine male circumcision: A review of the historiography studied how circumcision, and other surgical procedures were used to stop the act of masturbation for both men and women. Hare (as cited by Darby, 739) discovered that, at some point in history, sperm loss was considered a disease and it was called spermatorrhea, and to cure this disease that coincidentally was caused mostly by masturbation, doctors would recommend cauterization of the urethra, and circumcision, and so by the 19th century approaches to cure masturbation, such as surgical and pharmacological were widely used. But circumcision wasn’t the only procedure used, there were other procedures such as castration, cutting the dosal nerve of the penis, clitordectomy and ovariotomy for women, however, these procedures and interventions were too extreme that fortunately it never gained acceptance. The history perspective of masturbation is different from other perspectives because the basis of history is not trying to understand how the mind works, instead it looks at the past to try and understand the present and what lead things to be the way they are. In the instance of masturbation it is trying to understand what occurred in the past that caused masturbation to have the negative connotations it has today. Medical reasons is …show more content…
The guilt can be partly blamed by the society views, but there can also be some blame for the parents who have not had the “sex talk” with their children. Negative views on masturbation may never fully change, but there has been some improvement thanks to health professionals who have helped changed opinions regarding masturbation from being viewed as a “…medicalized…disease that could lead to insanity and other serious health consequence” (pg. 984) as stated by Christine Kaestle and Katherine Allen in The Role of Masturbation in Healthy Sexual Development: Perceptions of Young Adults to being more widely accepted. Education plays very important factor for adolescence to have healthy views on sex and masturbation, from being taught by professional educators and especially from educated parents because, according to the article Lecture versus dvd and attitude change toward female masturbation, academia has become very accepting of masturbation that many sexuality texts include information on masturbation and it also included in teachers curriculum (pg. 212). In this article, the authors did a study to see what elicited more behavior change in women when learning about masturbation through a DVD,
To further expand on that, Robert Darby, the author of The masturbation taboo and the rise of routine male circumcision: A review of the historiography studied how circumcision, and other surgical procedures were used to stop the act of masturbation for both men and women. Hare (as cited by Darby, 739) discovered that, at some point in history, sperm loss was considered a disease and it was called spermatorrhea, and to cure this disease that coincidentally was caused mostly by masturbation, doctors would recommend cauterization of the urethra, and circumcision, and so by the 19th century approaches to cure masturbation, such as surgical and pharmacological were widely used. But circumcision wasn’t the only procedure used, there were other procedures such as castration, cutting the dosal nerve of the penis, clitordectomy and ovariotomy for women, however, these procedures and interventions were too extreme that fortunately it never gained acceptance. The history perspective of masturbation is different from other perspectives because the basis of history is not trying to understand how the mind works, instead it looks at the past to try and understand the present and what lead things to be the way they are. In the instance of masturbation it is trying to understand what occurred in the past that caused masturbation to have the negative connotations it has today. Medical reasons is …show more content…
The guilt can be partly blamed by the society views, but there can also be some blame for the parents who have not had the “sex talk” with their children. Negative views on masturbation may never fully change, but there has been some improvement thanks to health professionals who have helped changed opinions regarding masturbation from being viewed as a “…medicalized…disease that could lead to insanity and other serious health consequence” (pg. 984) as stated by Christine Kaestle and Katherine Allen in The Role of Masturbation in Healthy Sexual Development: Perceptions of Young Adults to being more widely accepted. Education plays very important factor for adolescence to have healthy views on sex and masturbation, from being taught by professional educators and especially from educated parents because, according to the article Lecture versus dvd and attitude change toward female masturbation, academia has become very accepting of masturbation that many sexuality texts include information on masturbation and it also included in teachers curriculum (pg. 212). In this article, the authors did a study to see what elicited more behavior change in women when learning about masturbation through a DVD,