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vaginapaginaWow. So from another thread I stumbled upon this site: http://www.healthystrokes.com/ (Some pages have NSFW images.) Through browsing it (I'm bored - my friends and BF are RPGing tonight and I'm not in that particular game), I was reading about "Traumatic Masturbatory Syndrome," or TMS.
I had never heard of this before, and I consider myself to be a pretty curious person about sexual stuff. The sites says TMS is when someone masturbates facedown (called "prone"), and that it can cause issues (mostly in men apparently) because the feeling of masturbating in that manner is hard to reproduce during intercourse with another person. In men it can cause erectile dysfunction down the road, or inability to orgasm/ejaculate.
WELL, I masturbate almost exclusively while lying on my stomach. A few times lately I've tried masturbating lying face-up, but I have a very hard time reaching orgasm that way, and when I do it takes quite a bit longer and a lot more pressure to get there. And taking longer when I live in a dorm with several other people is not all that desirable! So it discourages trying it more to maybe get used to it and shorten the time it'll take. But when I do get there it seems like the orgasms are longer and stronger.
I've recently began having sex with my boyfriend and while I know most women don't orgasm from penetration alone, I still feel like I'm not getting what I should out of it anyway. I HAVE to use my hand for clitoral stimulation to orgasm, even when having sex. No hand, no nothing. (Which is a problem when, like last night, my hand being where it was was in his way and painful for him, so I couldn't do that. Then I just feel like I'm lying there, getting not-much out of it all.) Occationally I'll get close-ish during PIV alone, but nothing like anything I feel while stimulating myself manually.
Which I know is not uncommon, don't get me wrong!
From reading the site I guess there hasn't been much research on how masturbating "prone" affects women so much as men, but it got me thinking. There's a handful of testimonies from women who masturbate this way on the site, and they say that once they learned (slowly, as we all know it's hard to break habits!) to masturbate on their backs they found they had more pleasure from intercourse.
Since I had never heard of this before, I thought I would ask you lovely and informative guys and gals about it! Wikipedia turns up nothing; it only links to this one site through the "sexual dysfunction" page.
Do you think if I break the habit of having to masturbate while on my tummy I may find more pleasure from having PIV sex? Has anyone been in this situation, or know more about TMS? Am I barking up the wrong tree? Should I just try masturbating in other ways, like with a toy or vibrator? I've never tried either of those, if it makes any difference.
Added: The page seems to have some opinion on the part of the writer, but I'm still curious as to your thoughts!
I had never heard of this before, and I consider myself to be a pretty curious person about sexual stuff. The sites says TMS is when someone masturbates facedown (called "prone"), and that it can cause issues (mostly in men apparently) because the feeling of masturbating in that manner is hard to reproduce during intercourse with another person. In men it can cause erectile dysfunction down the road, or inability to orgasm/ejaculate.
WELL, I masturbate almost exclusively while lying on my stomach. A few times lately I've tried masturbating lying face-up, but I have a very hard time reaching orgasm that way, and when I do it takes quite a bit longer and a lot more pressure to get there. And taking longer when I live in a dorm with several other people is not all that desirable! So it discourages trying it more to maybe get used to it and shorten the time it'll take. But when I do get there it seems like the orgasms are longer and stronger.
I've recently began having sex with my boyfriend and while I know most women don't orgasm from penetration alone, I still feel like I'm not getting what I should out of it anyway. I HAVE to use my hand for clitoral stimulation to orgasm, even when having sex. No hand, no nothing. (Which is a problem when, like last night, my hand being where it was was in his way and painful for him, so I couldn't do that. Then I just feel like I'm lying there, getting not-much out of it all.) Occationally I'll get close-ish during PIV alone, but nothing like anything I feel while stimulating myself manually.
Which I know is not uncommon, don't get me wrong!
From reading the site I guess there hasn't been much research on how masturbating "prone" affects women so much as men, but it got me thinking. There's a handful of testimonies from women who masturbate this way on the site, and they say that once they learned (slowly, as we all know it's hard to break habits!) to masturbate on their backs they found they had more pleasure from intercourse.
Since I had never heard of this before, I thought I would ask you lovely and informative guys and gals about it! Wikipedia turns up nothing; it only links to this one site through the "sexual dysfunction" page.
Do you think if I break the habit of having to masturbate while on my tummy I may find more pleasure from having PIV sex? Has anyone been in this situation, or know more about TMS? Am I barking up the wrong tree? Should I just try masturbating in other ways, like with a toy or vibrator? I've never tried either of those, if it makes any difference.
Added: The page seems to have some opinion on the part of the writer, but I'm still curious as to your thoughts!
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Date: 2009-04-01 03:28 am (UTC)