Masturbation is a crucial stage in the development of male
sexuality where boys learn how to bring their state of sexual
arousal to orgasm. Against all logic, it is often implied that
women can hope for orgasm without the need for the same learning
process.
Some women say that they have masturbated but that they found
the activity uninteresting or lacking in emotional context. I
remember as a teenager occasionally experimenting by touching my
body, in the bath for instance, just to see if anything sexual
might happen. Of course it never did because women's sexual arousal
and orgasm is not automatic like a man's tends to be.
Any ineffectual touching of a person's genitals could be
described as masturbation and little girls often touch themselves
in this casual way. A better definition would be to describe
masturbation as an activity where a person has at least the
intention of enjoying sexual arousal and orgasm.
Unfortunately, no one ever spells out that, just as men use
pictures during masturbation, women need to use highly explicit
sexual fantasies. Any woman who learns how to masturbate herself to
orgasm is likely to be motivated to engage in the activity.
Positive benefits of female masturbation
If they do discover masturbation to orgasm, women are typically
older than their male peers and often they have already had sex
with a partner. Unfortunately female masturbation is relatively
uncommon and so many women are unfamiliar with orgasm. A woman
needs the opportunity and privacy to explore her own body's
responses, usually during a period of being single. The clitoris is
naturally (because it is the female sex organ) the focus for
women's physical stimulation. Women use erotica and sexual
fantasies for psychological arousal.