Masturbation.

One of the first things that striked me when looking at the Being Bad module was that we had a lecture on masturbation but not a lecture on sex. I had never really thought about masturbation in such detail to think why it would be 'Being Bad', but then again IS it Being Bad?









It has not been proven that it can affect your health in a bad way (in fact, it has been proven choking the chicken once in a while can be good for your health; http://http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3072021.stm) so why is Masturbation still so taboo in society?




It is not often that we see Masturbation on our screens whether it be at the cinema or at home, yet when occasionally it does come on, it seems to make the audience laugh. However when we see a couple having sex, after a certain age you stop laughing. Also, like I previously said about smoking, if a character in a film is seen masturbating, it is often for a reason and to portray that character in a certain way, take Kevin out of Kevin and Perry as an example.

Like in films, Masturbation isn't something that we often talk about in everyday life, take the lecture as an example, there was a lot of giggling and laughing, even though it is still a sexual act that we all take part in, but for years now Masturbation has been something that people see as a bad thing, with people trying to stop people doing it and it not being on our screens, where really we need to admit that nearly everyone does it and it does happen, however much we try and blank it out of our lives.