For the sumerians and the egyptians, a river, or the universe were created by a god fapping and ejaculating. In Greek and Latin art and literature masturbation and masturbators are portrayed, if at all, as either comic or pathetic. In middle ages, it was regarded not as an important Topic, or only under certain conditions. or was there an Aversion by catholicism? Then only since the year 1700 when modernity, industrialisation, Democracy etc. came into being, masturbations started to get into the Focus of Publicity. It was regarded the Evil that Comes with private freedom. Freud's saying of heimlich/unheimlich - homely / uncanny cause in german, heimlich means home and also secret/hidden, so heimlich goes over to unheimlich (uncanny) and the Edge is very small… never know when one faps into the other… same with Internet porn I think. It came with the faster Internet, Web 2.0, neoliberal economy… So in our world fapping has become so normal, that NoFap is a Diversion... The shame of 1700 and the following years of prude citizens (bourgeois) and the guilt seem to have disappeared today… Nowadays it has become the new normal to fap to porn, as Long as you don't talk About it or do it in public (as this is forbidden) I personally also wouldn't go out to the Streets into the sun, sit at a cafe in Beautiful vienna, take out my Laptop and an anal porn, take out my penis and take my Hand to fap so that everybody sees like Diogenes of Sinope, this cynical philosophic thinker did in ancient Athens. Would you? And is Masturbation to porn to you homely / secure / safe; or do you regard it more as the uncanny valley? If it becomes too obsessive, can it end in the wish to be uploaded into a porn movie for a Person? Or will it replace our real life sexual Encounters in the way, that man faps, Woman Downloads his semen, both watching to huge penis porn DUMBASSES and HOES? Cause no thin in the world is so stupid, self obsessed, narcistic, immoral, ugly, vomit inducing than porn stars!!! doing porn. The ones who have quit, we should forgive them, like Jesus did. Cause if all the pornstars would quit, we professional fappers would have watched ALL the porn that is on the Internet within two weeks, and after that we would be so bored by this old and seen Images, that we wouldn't watch. on the other Hand, I masturbated Five+ years to the same porn DVDs.
my Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/jul/26/featuresreviews.guardianreview7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_masturbation
I am tired. "We reach the conclusion", he wrote, "that in the case of moderate masturbation in healthy, well-born individuals, no seriously pernicious results necessarily follow." In the 1980s Michel Foucault was arguing masturbation taboo was "rape by the parents of the sexual activity of their children": To intervene in this personal, secret activity, which masturbation was, does not represent something neutral for the parents. It is not only a matter of power, or authority, or ethics; it's also a pleasure.[40] from Wikipedia -- I have to add that I think Michel Foucault is a wiseass, who can't be trusted. Also he knew Nothing About Internet porn… which is destroying our Society.
In the old testament of the Bible, those who masturbated the night before temple were not allowed to attend until they bathed. Part of the many Jewish rules which emphasised purity in worship.
Does any culture have a sensible opinion of masturbation? As in, there's no shame in doing it but you're much better off not doing it. I guess cultures that promote semen retention might be the closest to this. But it applies to women as well of course.
