Language, Please!
This is a really good article full of fun writing, good advice, and potentially new ideas. However, in this month of masturbation, it fails one of the most basic aspects of productive sex conversation: blame. The title, “Memo to Women Who Don't Masturbate: You're Doing It Wrong” is an alarmingly negative message to women. There is already enough stigma currently attached to women’s masturbation and this awful headline spouts such a negative statement. Maybe women who do not masturbate do not want to do it. Maybe some women are asexual. Maybe women who do will not be into your singular view of masturbation techniques. Maybe every single thing spouted in this argument won’t work for some women. Move forward with better front-facing language.
Never Too Late
It is never too late for sex education, with masturbation being an important theme to discuss. Fortunately, more and more jurisdictions are broaching the topic. Some are making progress toward sharing important sex information, such as ideas around masturbation, with young people...and others are not. Let’s not forget that we all, in some way, can help kids learn and understand the role masturbation can play in their lives. The positive role...not the fear-mongering role. We can be active in letting governments know that sex ed is important. We can be active in our community with sex ed initiatives. We can be active at home by speaking with the young people in our lives. Move forward with thoughts on how to help young people.
