Solitary Masturbation Research Articles

Women's Finger Sensitivity Correlates with Partnered Sexual Behavior But Not Solitary Masturbation Frequencies

In a sample of 97 healthy Dutch female university students, women with greater finger tactile sensitivity (von Frey-type filaments) engaged more in partnered (but not solitary masturbation) sexual behavior. Orgasmic responses in the past 30 days were not correlated with finger sensitivity. Results are discussed in terms of differences between different sexual behaviors, as well as susceptibility to reinforcement, and psychoanalytic views of conversion hysteria.

Gender and sexual orientation differences in sexual response to sexual activities versus gender of actors in sexual films.

In this study, the authors investigated the hypothesis that women's sexual orientation and sexual responses in the laboratory correlate less highly than do men's because women respond primarily to the sexual activities performed by actors, whereas men respond primarily to the gender of the actors. The participants were 20 homosexual women, 27 heterosexual women, 17 homosexual men, and 27 heterosexual men. The videotaped stimuli included men and women engaging in same-sex intercourse, solitary masturbation, or nude exercise (no sexual activity); human male-female copulation; and animal (bonobo chimpanzee or Pan paniscus) copulation. Genital and subjective sexual arousal were continuously recorded. The genital responses of both sexes were weakest to nude exercise and strongest to intercourse. As predicted, however, actor gender was more important for men than for women, and the level of sexual activity was more important for women than for men. Consistent with this result, women responded genitally to bonobo copulation, whereas men did not. An unexpected result was that homosexual women responded more to nude female targets exercising and masturbating than to nude male targets, whereas heterosexual women responded about the same to both sexes at each activity level.

Are Orgasms in the Mind or the Body? Psychosocial Versus Physiological Correlates of Orgasmic Pleasure and Satisfaction

We investigated the hypothesis that the subjective experience of orgasmic pleasure and satisfaction depends more on psychological and psychosocial than on physical factors. Male and female participants rated adjectives to describe orgasm attained during either solitary masturbation (n = 356) or sex with a partner (n = 442). Orgasmic pleasure and satisfaction were related more to (a) the cognitive-affective than sensory aspects of the orgasm experience; (b) the overall physical and psychological intensity of orgasm but not to anatomical location of orgasm sensations; and (d) relationship satisfaction. These findings emphasize the importance of psychosocial determinants of the orgasm experience.

Avaliação da capacidade orgástica em mulheres na pós-menopausa

To correlate the capacity of healthy postmenopausal women to have orgasms (during intercourse or by solitary masturbation) with psychosocial, behavioral, climacteric, hormonal and interpersonal factors. Nine hundred and ninety-nine women (aged from 41 to 60 years) underwent physical and supplementary tests and answered questionnaires regarding sexual behaviour. Sixty healthy women, sexually active, with one or more years of amenorrhea, without hormone therapy and with a partner capable of intercourse were chosen from this group. A Logistic Regression Model with one dependent variable -- orgasmic capacity -- and seventeen independent variables -- psychosocial, behavioral, interpersonal, climacteric and hormonal factors -- was developed. The orgasmic capacity correlated significantly with the practice of masturbation (p=0.000), with pleasure in embracing and caressing the partner's body (p=0.036) and with the presence of vaginal dryness (p=0.021). This study shows that the most important factors were interpersonal and behavioral and that the other parameters considered were not statistically significant. Women with vaginal dryness, who however engage in masturbation and maintain an affective relationship with their partner, obtain an equal or a greater number of orgasms when compared to the frequency of sexual intercourse.

Do all orgasms feel alike? Evaluating a two‐dimensional model of the orgasm experience across gender and sexual context

The characteristics common to all human orgasm experiences and potential gender and contextual factors affecting these experiences were investigated in two studies. A two‐dimensional descriptive model of the orgasm experience was evaluated by testing hypotheses concerning (a) fit of the model to adjective‐ratings data describing male and female orgasm experiences, and (b) sexual context effects on the importance of model components. In the first model‐evaluation study, 888 university students (523 women) provided adjective ratings to convey orgasm experiences attained through both solitary masturbation and sex with a partner. In a cross‐validation study, 798 university students (503 women) provided similar ratings to convey orgasm experiences attained either through solitary masturbation or through sex with a partner. Overall, findings supported the utility of a two‐dimensional model of the orgasm experience, an adjective‐rating approach in comparing male and female orgasm, and the importance of examining sexual context effects on the orgasm experience.

Effects of testosterone replacement therapy on sexual interest, function, and behavior in HIV+ men

This report documents findings from the first 80 patients to enter our ongoing clinical trial of testosterone replacement therapy, designed for HIV+ men with low CD4 cell counts and low levels of serum testosterone, who complain of diminished sexual interest and/or sexual dysfunction. Patients were treated with testosterone for 8 weeks with biweekly intramuscular injections, starting at 200 mg. and increasing at Week 2 to 400 mg. biweekly. Week 8 responders were treated with testosterone for at least four more weeks and were then randomized to testosterone or placebo for six weeks or until relapse. Seventy‐three men completed the initial eight‐week phase of treatment; of the seven dropouts (9%), two men discontinued treatment because of side effects (irritability and hair loss). Of the 73 completers, 67 (92%) were rated as clearcut responders by the study doctor. Self‐ratings of sexual interest, erectile functioning, and satisfaction with one's sex life revealed significant improvement in all areas. Although much of the sample was sexually abstinent both before and after treatment, sexual activity (both with partners and solitary masturbation) increased after treatment. Progressive HIV illness entails many kinds of losses; restoration of one's sexuality associated with testosterone replacement can greatly enhance quality of life and sense of vitality.

Male masturbation as a vehicle for the pursuer/distancer relationship in marriage

When one spouse chooses masturbation over sexual intercourse in marriage, a pursuer/distancer relationship cycle may be behind the choice, or may develop. This cycle, which can cause severe marital discord, entails one spouse pursuing sexual intercourse, while the other spouse distances via solitary masturbation. The more the pursuer pursues, the more the distancer distances (or masturbates), and vice versa. This paper demonstrates this cycle with male masturbators, and proposes an integrative treatment model which addresses not only the behavior, but the roots of it as well. Cases are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the model.

Intergenerational change in sex behavior: a belated look at Kinsey's males.

This article replicates for Kinsey's male sample the decade-of-birth analyses provided in the Kinsey "female volume." Five generations of male respondents are compared in terms of total frequency of sexual activity, and frequency and incidence of nine specific categories of sexual behavior. Inj general, unmarried males born after 1900 experienced more frequent sexual outlet than did nineteenth-century males. Additionally, the proportion of total outlet devoted to various specific activities varied by birth decade. Solitary masturbation rose somewhat spectacularly in significance with the passing decades, while nocturnal emissions and animal contacts declined. Orgasms provided by heterosexual activities increased slightly for the early twentieth-century generations, but then declined to a point below their nineteenth-century levels. Although homosexual contacts accounted for a constant percentage of total outlet for unmarried males over the five generations, more males in each succeeding generation were actively engaging in homosexual activity, at least on a casual basis. Similarly, although heterosexual contacts accounted for a smaller percentage of all activity among the unmarried in later generations, more of the later-born males had engaged in such activity at least once. For married males, on the other hand, frequency of total outlet was unaffected by generation. A large and stable proportion of this outlet was provided by marital coitus. Although more males in later generations had experienced extramarital contacts, such activities accounted for a small and resonably stable proportion of total outlet, when frquency of occurrence was considered. Masturbation gained in significance, while nocturnal emissions and homosexual contacts declined, and animal contacts among the married were almost nonexistent in all generations.

Sexual experience and sexual responsiveness: sex differences.

Male (30) and female (30) college undergraduate subjects were shown five photographic slides depicting different heterosexual behaviors and one slide depicting solitary masturbation by a person of the same sex as the subject. Subjects rated the extent to which they found each of the slides sexually arousing and pleasant or unpleasant and indicated how many times they had personally engaged in each of the depicted activities. Following exposure to the slides, sexual arousal and emotional reactions were assessed. Contrary to the propositions of Kinsey et al. (1953), female heterosexual experience was equal to or superior to masturbation experience as an indicant of female sexual reactivity to the erotic materials. Among males, masturbation experience was superior to heterosexual experience as an indicant of sexual reactivity. The role of affective reactions to sexual experiences as determinants of sexual responsiveness is discussed.

Secondary orgasmic dysfunction. II. Case study.

The treatment of a case of secondary orgasmic dysfunction is described. In this case, a direct behavioral retraining program was employed to increase the couple's repertoire of effective sexual behaviors. An extinction and successive approximation procedure was used to transfer ortasmic responsiveness from solitary masturbation to heterosexual coitus. Since other data have indicated that nonsexual marriage problems contribute to the maintenance of secondary orgasmic dysfunction, a direct, confrontive intervention into the marital relationship was made concurrent with the sexual retraining program. Outcome data are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the reatment procedures.

Sex Offenses: The American Legal Context

A rational code of sex offense laws is long overdue in this country. Sex offense legislation presently on the books is largely unenforceable and much of this legislation does a great deal more harm than good. There are a number of fundamental reasons for this. In the first place, the prohibitions imposed by these laws are far too inclusive, covering far too many areas of sexual behavior. These laws make potential criminals of most of the adolescent and adult population, in that they proscribe every conceivable sexual act except a normal act of coitus between a man and a woman who are married to each other or an act of solitary masturbation. They, of course, prohibit not only the more innocuous kinds of sexual behavior engaged in by normal adults and adolescents, but also aberrant sexual behavior that may be dangerous. Thus, not only heavy necking, mutual masturbation, fornication, and adultery, but also forcible rape, forcible sodomy, incest, and the sexual abutse of sma!l children are interdicted by these laws. One goal of sex offense laws is to keep individuals chaste before marriage. Until then, individuals must not give overt expression to any sexual desires, except possibly through solitary masturbation; sex drives must be kept in check, under pain of incarceration.