Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Your Business

 
Today--in response to this blogpost, I defend safe sex:

Most adults have sexual fantasies; this should be defended.  (When we hear people attack other's sexual fantasies as 'disgusting' freedom-loving people should be Minute Men.) Social research has demonstrated that most adolescents and adults masturbate at least once each year.  Sexual fantasizing is highly diverse:  What one person considers exciting might be boring or scandalous to someone else.  Outside the female vagina, male ejaculate can have little physical effect--though people fetishize it, probably in response to cultural taboos.  One male describes a sexual turn-on involving the licking of his own ejaculate, a harmless (if quizzical) practice, and a local publication discusses it.  So what?