Celebrate the Beauty of Pleasuring Yourself
The sun is shining, the birds are singing and the leaves are blooming from branches all over town. It's finally spring, everybody!
What better way to celebrate than taking a walk outside, with a warm coffee in hand?
Wait, that's not your thing? Maybe you'd like to plug your earphones in and settle in a quiet spot in the park as the new Taylor Swift album croons in your ears?
Still not hitting the spot? Maybe it's more of your jam to lie down in bed, settle against the soft mattress in nothing but your skin and touch yourself to satisfying pleasure?
If that's something that you'd been wishing to do since the season's turned, then you'll be excited to hear that this coming May is Masturbation Month!
Yes, you heard it right. This isn't your typical Tiktok trend, this is an actual cultural thing that celebrates the beauty of pleasuring ourselves.
If this is your first time hearing about such a thing – then you're in luck because we're about to take you through how this all began and how it continues to positively impact all of us!
What is Masturbation Month and How Did It All Begin?
Technically, Masturbation Month is celebrated every 28th of May but this is more than just a date – it's a commemoration of the person and community that fought for our right to explore our bodies and find what feels right for us!
Back in 1995, the Surgeon-General, Dr. Joycelyn Elders suggested to the United States government that masturbation be included in sex education. In response, then-President Bill Clinton asked her to resign (a.k.a. fired) which feels incredibly inconsiderate, and to a certain extent even conservative for the administration at the time to do.
It seems like the general public felt the same way because when news of this got around, a San Francisco-based sex shop called Good Vibrations took it upon themselves and coined May 28 as Masturbation Month. This was the spark that fuelled the fire within communities to raise awareness, create conversations and make change as to how people perceive masturbation because it's not an act that you should be ashamed of – if we quote Good Vibrations themselves: “it's safe, it's healthy, it's free, it's pleasurable and it helps people get to know their bodies and their sexual responses.”
Now that we've established that touching yourself is fun and healthy, how do we do it? It sounds easy on paper (and even on the porn we see), but it's more than touching yourself willy-nilly…
What is Masturbation and How to Do It?
Anybody can masturbate! By definition, it is the act of touching your own genitals for sexual stimulation to provide a way to relieve sexual tension that has built up over time within singles and couples alike especially if you've been experiencing a period of stress or lack of intimacy.
While the past has turned masturbation into a shameful stereotype full of claims it's made by the devil, it's actually one of the healthy ways to manage your emotions and regulate your bodily rhythms so you can come out of this (get it?) refreshed and recentered to take on any day.
So, how do you do it?
It all starts with communicating to yourself that everything will be okay. You won't be burned at the stake but you will feel this fiery sensation in your core that leads you to a satisfactory end.
Then, it's all about trusting your own hands to touch your erogenous zones in gentle circles before building up on the speed and pressure until you arrive at a pace that makes you moan the time away.
The next thing you'll know, you're living with the knowledge on what makes you feel good and using it whenever you need.
What is Mutual Masturbation and How to Do It?
If you're in a place where you're ready to experience new levels of pleasure within the realm of masturbation, then maybe engaging in mutual masturbation is the right next step!
By definition, mutual masturbation is when partners use their hands or toys to stimulate each other's genitals. It's a way for couples of all varieties to pleasure their partners and deepen the knowledge of each other's bodies – therefore enhancing the trust and intimacy shared between them.
There are quite a few ways to do this! First, is the most common method: using your own hands. It allows you to be skin-to-skin, hand to clit or fingers around the cock to understand what twist, pinch or stroke gives your partner the utmost pleasure.
Second is through the use of toys. While this rids you of the use of your own hands, it does allow you to use the features of a sex toy to maximize stimulation and in turn, pleasure.
What Sex Toys can I Use for Mutual Masturbation?
We now live in a world where sex is growing to be a normal thing to engage in conversation about, and that is wonderful! It means that we have access to more reliable information from individual experts and reputable organizations – especially when it comes to the use of sex toys in our lives.
This comes in handy because we're here to show you which sex toys you can use in your exploration of mutual masturbation!
