I used to have masturbation related guilt, but I worked to get rid of it because I know that 1. I own my body 2. my genitals AREN'T dirty and 3. it's not wrong.
I wasn't raised Catholic, just raised by parents who never talked about anything like that. I don't recall ever masturbating as a young child, but I do remember really well the time I was futzing with my shirt, trying to tuck it in smoothly and my mother went, "GET YOUR HAND OUT OF YOUR PANTS!" (keeping in mind, this was in our HOUSE, not in the store or something) and I was like *jumps* and being about six at the time went "hand in pants=BAD! ZOMG! BAD!" and lumped masturbation into that too and didn't do it.
Masturbation has been a wonderful way for me to feel better about my body and sexuality and to know myself better. Course, it's taken me since that hand-in-pants thing til a couple months ago to really start masturbating, but I don't feel any guilt about it.
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Date: 2006-10-22 02:58 am (UTC)I wasn't raised Catholic, just raised by parents who never talked about anything like that. I don't recall ever masturbating as a young child, but I do remember really well the time I was futzing with my shirt, trying to tuck it in smoothly and my mother went, "GET YOUR HAND OUT OF YOUR PANTS!" (keeping in mind, this was in our HOUSE, not in the store or something) and I was like *jumps* and being about six at the time went "hand in pants=BAD! ZOMG! BAD!" and lumped masturbation into that too and didn't do it.
Masturbation has been a wonderful way for me to feel better about my body and sexuality and to know myself better. Course, it's taken me since that hand-in-pants thing til a couple months ago to really start masturbating, but I don't feel any guilt about it.