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Besides being an outlet for sexual tensions in both male and female adolescents, there are other important considerations to masturbation. One cannot become pregnant from masturbation, nor can one father a child through masturbatory practices. It would be highly unusual to acquire a sexually transmitted infection from masturbation. One does remain a virgin if masturbation is substituted for intercourse. Masturbation allows the adolescent to understand his or her body and sexual response; it ... enables the teen to understand what practices give rise to his or her sexual gratification. And masturbation may delay the onset of sexual intercourse.
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It has been argued that the practice of male circumcision for non-religious reasons, still wide-spread in some countries, arose originally as one of the most popular remedies against masturbation. See circumcision for a detailed discussion. Extreme male circumcisions, where much of the penis' skin is removed, are in fact effective against masturbation because erections can become very painful, severely restricting the sexual use of the organ. Such circumcisions would today be referred to as malpractice in a medical context, but are sometimes practiced in a religious one.
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In 1948 and 1953, Alfred Kinsey’s research showed that 92% of males and 62% of females reported in engaging in masturbation. 68% of males and 40% of females reached their first orgasm during masturbation. 82% of boys and 20% of girls masturbate before age 15.
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What Onan did was not masturbation, but a form of birth control known as coitus interruptus. Onan's primary sin was probably his resistance to the custom of providing offspring for his dead brother by impregnating his widow. However a parallel is drawn between Onan's act and the wasting of the semen that occurs when males masturbate. Thomas Bokenkotter, a Catholic priest and historian, explains the traditional church opposition to masturbation this way:
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This continued well into the Victorian Era, where such medical censure of masturbation was in line with the widespread social conservatism and opposition to open sexual behavior common at the time. [13] There were recommendations to have boys' pants constructed so that the genitals could not be touched through the pockets, for schoolchildren to be seated at special desks to prevent their crossing their legs in class and for girls to be forbidden from riding horses and bicycles because the sensations these activities produce were considered too similar to masturbation. Many "remedies" were devised, including eating a bland, meatless diet. This approach was promoted by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (inventor of corn flakes) and Rev. Sylvester Graham (inventor of Graham crackers). The medical literature of the times describes procedures for electric shock treatments, infibulation, restraining devices like chastity belts and straitjackets, cauterization or—as a last resort—wholesale surgical excision of the genitals. Routine neonatal circumcision was widely adopted in the United States and the UK at least partly because of its believed preventive effect against masturbation (see ... History of male circumcision).
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In 2003, an Australian research team led by Graham Giles of The Cancer Council Australia[38] concluded that frequent masturbation by males appears to help prevent the development of prostate cancer. The study ... indicated that this would be more helpful than ejaculation through sexual intercourse because intercourse can transmit diseases that may increase the risk of cancer instead. Also, frequent ejaculation is more easily obtained and sustained over time with the aid of masturbation.
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