Masturbation is healthy

Lauren Wright talks about masturbation and it's benefits in her column in the Nevada Sagebrush.

Wright said masturbation is a taboo subject that has always seemed inappropriate due to societal and religious stereotypes.

I'm glad that someone finally said that masturbation being inappropriate is a stereotype. I think it is human nature for someone to touch themselves.

Above all I think it is interesting to note that men only do it 20 percent more then women!

I find that most women lie or are embarrassed that they masturbate. It is ridiculous to feel negative about pleasing yourself.

Growing up I felt that there was something mentally wrong with me because I masturbated. Whenever the conversation was brought up among a group of my girlfriends they would say "they didn't do such things" and I would bare my secret alone. For years I felt like I needed help with my "sickness" and now I just wish someone would have told me it was normal.

I was really young when I started to masturbate so I know that it is human nature to do it. I know that it is human nature because when I started I didn't even know much about sex.

I also think Wright brought up a good point when she said that when men masturbate it can be seen as comical and rarely a joke is cracked about women. Why is that?