Can Self Pleasure Lead To Better Health?

According to archaeologists who found ancient artifacts portraying people masturbating, masturbation has existed since the dawn of time. Yet, there are many controversies surrounding autoeroticism, especially during the Victorian era when metal chastity belts were employed on young men and women to prevent them from touching themselves while sleeping. Such methods appear arcane and obsolete today; however, masturbation is proving to be a touchy subject in this day and age even when the modern man claims to be enlightened. Masturbation is widely accepted by both experts in the medical field and sociologists as healthy, natural and helpful in sexual self-exploration. Apart from abstinence, it is said to be the safest sex experience. Nonetheless, the act of pleasuring oneself is still receiving widespread infamy. In 1994, the first US woman Surgeon General, Jocelyn Elders, was dismissed when she answered a question concerning sex education in public schools, saying masturbation "is something that is part of human sexuality and its part of something that perhaps should be taught." "Masturbation" is said to have many health benefits. Medical professionals have noted that it can: