Masturbation is a crucial stage in the development of male sexuality
where boys learn how to bring their state of sexual arousal to orgasm.
Against all logic, it is often implied that women can hope for orgasm
without the need for the same learning process.
Some women say that they have masturbated but that they found the
activity uninteresting or lacking in emotional context. I remember as a
teenager occasionally experimenting by touching my body, in the bath for
instance, just to see if anything sexual might happen. Of course it
never did because women's sexual arousal and orgasm is not automatic
like a man's tends to be.
Any
ineffectual touching of a person's genitals could be described as
masturbation and little girls often touch themselves in this casual way.
A better definition would be to describe masturbation as an activity
where a person has at least the intention of enjoying sexual arousal and
orgasm.
Unfortunately, no one ever spells out that, just as men
use pictures during masturbation, women need to use highly explicit
sexual fantasies. Any woman who learns how to masturbate herself to
orgasm is likely to be motivated to engage in the activity.
Positive benefits of female masturbation
If
they do discover masturbation to orgasm, women are typically older than
their male peers and often they have already had sex with a partner.
Unfortunately female masturbation is relatively uncommon and so many
women are unfamiliar with orgasm. A woman needs the opportunity and
privacy to explore her own body's responses, usually during a period of
being single. The clitoris is naturally (because it is the female sex
organ) the focus for women's physical stimulation. Women use erotica and
sexual fantasies for psychological arousal.