The solo number does not have a good reputation. But according to sex researchers, it leads to better sex and keeps you fit. Why is that and how much is too much.
In the 18th century, at the time of the Enlightenment of all things, the reputation for masturbation really went downhill. Then a man named John Marten published an 88-page pamphlet entitled Onania, warning of the “appalling consequences” of masturbation for both men and women. Doctors joined in this tenor: masturbation was made responsible for tuberculosis, smallpox, insanity and softening of the brain or even identified as the cause of death. For Immanuel Kant, masturbation was worse than suicide, because man does not even act out of desperation, but is a willless object of his desire. This is how the scientist Thomas Laqueur, who is one of only a few people who has dealt with the history of masturbation, explained it in an interview with the “time“. And today?
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