So at what point did FUCKING YOUR OWN hand become "normal"?

Our society encourages fucking your hand.

 

I really like the nuances of this debate. Questionite has a very eloquent approach and he contends well but I agree with ultrafabber. I think masturbation evolved when sex between willing humans became shamed.

The concept of childhood was recognized during the evolution of civilization. We control our children and we shield them from having sex with each other so out of frustration and self-exploration, they learn to masturbate. When I was in kindergarten, I had more audacity and I used to participate in prepubescent sexual exploration while I “played” with my friends. At some point all of that changed and then I ended up humping my couch and plenty of other things laying around my house because I didn’t have a chance to have my body sexually released with a real person like every non-human species.

Civilization validated the act of masturbation. The body acts weird and sexuality begins to misfire when it becomes starved by unnatural circumstances. Put it this way, when humans became furiously hungry, cannibalism was a popular remedy. When sex wasn’t available during the budding of our sexual development, we sought porn and tortuous self-pleasuring as a way to quench our instinct to search for a mate.

I don’t want to shame any individual for releasing their sexual energy. Sexual arousal is not shameful but I think it’s important to acknowledge that masturbation is a strange consequence of this weird time continuum.

Maybe we are turning into hermaphroditic, cybernetic automatons that function autoerotically. I’m kidding... but really, who knows where all this is going?

 

Masturbation is natural as it exists. Who deems what is natural and what is not? Religion has attempted to shame us of masturbation. Someone somewhere decided that wasting semen was an act against god. Such nonsense when you think about wet dreams existing and that other animals masturbate as well.
There is nothing wrong with Masturbation at all. It's when masturbation becomes the only way of being able to reach climax. Our society has over sexualized everything in an attempt to market products to us. We live in a much more sexually charged environment and come across many stimuli that are intended to arouse us than we would living in the woods hunting and gathering. Masturbation is not the problem, it's the coaxing by society telling us that we should masturbate and buy their products. Pornography is the ultimate in sexual merchandizing. Pornography companies NEED us to masturbate so that they can make money.
When we masturbate often, our brain chemistry builds stronger connections that are responsible for the association of masturbation and pleasure. Soon we become addicted to that neurological connection and other sources of pleasure don't compare. The world begins to look less and less exciting compared to the easy fix of masturbation and pornography. The goal of NoFap is to weaken that connection in the brain so that you can enjoy what the rest of the world has to offer you.

 

Animals only masturbate in captivity. If animals masturbate in the wild, it’s because they are not as sexually productive as the alphas. In other words, only the betas succumb to masturbation because they’re the runts of nature (sounds harsh in those
terms). So it is natural if you’re satisfied with the fact that only the bottom of the food chain use masturbation as a desperate coping mechanism while Mr. / Mrs. Big Baboon gets an harem of sex partners.

As far as religion, I’m far from religious, and I don’t shame masturbation (I was an expert masturbator in my day) but I firmly believe that it is a self-absorbed and lazy solution to dealing with being horny. It’s like eating twinkies and ordering pizza delivery versus hunting for food. Like I said earlier, all of this is the consequence of where we are in time and space. I’m not sure where it all leads. I hate the idea of masturbating now that I see how much of my life has been spent recuperating from excessive clit bashing. I’ve sapped myself to comatose ecstasy and now I have to try super hard to feel anything from my boyfriend. I think he’s a 10/10. He’s sexy, sensitive, and intelligent. It sucks that I rubbed myself numb. I wish I could just look at his face and have an orgasm because I feel so enamored.