little_tippler

eeer....why the hell not? Masturbation is perfectly normal and healthy. Being jealous about it seems prudish/immature sexually and a complete misunderstanding of the point of masturbating. Sometimes people just wanna have fun...on their own. Orgasms you give yourself are different from ones you get from someone else. Masturbating is a release and tension buster. It does all sorts of good things to your body. It can be foreplay to sex with your SO, or it can be something you share with yourself.

I personally admit I don't have the easiest time doing it in front of my SO, but I am a product of society and still have a few hang ups about it. I don't give a toss if he does it and the same goes for him, as far as I know. It's not even an issue. Seems a shame to create a problem over something so trivial...there are MANY more important things in a relationship.

edit: I think it's silly to abstain if you want it, and I think she's even sillier for thinking it's alright for her to demand this of you. At the end of the day, you should be your own person. Talk to her about it, that is in no way a good long term solution.

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918