Self-Pleasuring While Married: Male-Female Differences

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Self-Pleasuring While Married Male-Female
Differences
By John Dugan
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• Married people or people in committed,
  long-term relationships tend to have more
  partner-based sensual activity than people not in
  such a relationship, according to a number of
  surveys and reports. But that does not mean that
  self-pleasuring goes out the window when a person
  gets married. Since self-gratification plays a
  role in maintaining male organ health (and
  female organ health as well), thats a good
  thing. But do married men and women view
  self-pleasuring the same way? A recent study
  suggests they do not.

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Coming to terms

• For the purposes of this article, married
  is going to refer to a couple in a long-term,
  committed relationship, even if they are not
  officially married. And self-pleasuring will
  refer to the act of engaging in self-stimulation
  of a persons own genitals in a private setting.
  (In other words, mutual self-pleasuring, which
  might be considered as part of partner-based
  coupling, will not be counted as self-pleasuring.)

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Study

• Most of the information in this piece is
  drawn from a recent study published by the
  Archives of Sensual Behavior and entitled
  Self-pleasuring and Partnered Sensual Activity
  Substitutes or Complements? This study was
  conducted by doctors at the University of Texas
  at Austin and Brigham Young University. It has a
  large sample size 7648 men and 8090 women, all
  from the United States. As the scientists state
  in their summary, we explored the association
  between sensual frequency and self-pleasuring,
  evaluating the evidence for whether
  self-pleasuring compensates for unavailable
  sensual activity, complements (or augments)
  existing paired sensual activity, or bears little
  association with it.
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• In other words, they wanted to look at
  whether people in a relationship who had more or
  less coupling were more or less likely to
  self-stimulate, and what might be the reason for
  the self-pleasuring.

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Results

• Not surprisingly, men reported
  self-gratifying more frequently than did women (a
  reflection of reports from other studies on the
  frequency of self-pleasuring reported by the
  genders). But sensual contentment seemed to play
  a strong role in a persons self-stimulatory
  frequency.
• For example, 79 of sensually discontented men
  who had not had sensual activity recently
  reported that they self-stimulated. But 60 of
  sensually discontented men who had had sensual
  activity four or more times recently also
  reported self-gratifying. Men who were sensually
  content (which was only 42 of the sample)
  reported significantly less self-pleasuring
  even if they had NOT had sensual activity
  recently.

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• Interestingly, women were who sensually
  content (57) and had had sensual activity 4 or
  more times recently were more likely to
  self-stimulate than the sensually content women
  who had NOT had sensual activity 33 vs. 21.
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• One theory that this data suggests is that
  married men often self-stimulate to make up for
  the fact that they are discontented sensually,
  whereas women who are sensually content may
  self-stimulate more as a way of complementing
  their sensual satisfaction.

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• The fact that only a minority of married men
  report sensual satisfaction seems significant,
  and its worth exploring what causes that
  discontent. Is it the quality of the sensual
  activity, the frequency, or some other factor(s)?
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• None of this is to say that self-pleasuring
  among married people is necessarily negative.
  Many individuals in a relationship self-stimulate
  quite happily and contentedly. But there is
  clearly more to learn about this aspect of
  married life.

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• Whether married or single, self-pleasuring is
  usually a big part of a mans life, and he will
  self-stimulate more happily if his manhood is in
  prime health. Regular application of a superior
  male organ health crème (health professionals
  recommend Man1 Man Oil, which is clinically
  proven mild and safe for skin) helps maintain
  that health. Since self-pleasuring-based friction
  often causes some raw skin damage, using a crème
  that can rehydrate the manhood skin. For this
  purpose, a crème with both a natural moisturizer
  (such as vitamin E) and a high-end emollient
  (such as Shea butter) is required. Ideally, the
  crème should also include L-carnitine. Frequent
  male member use often leads to a loss of
  sensation due to peripheral nerve damage, and
  L-carnitine is an effective agent to help with
  this issue.