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Originally Posted by ratbastid
I'm only tangentially going to address the OP, so bear with me.
"Manliness" is a really strange (and sort of distasteful) concept to me. I really don't like standards for how I am supposed to be. Am I only a man if I grow a mustache and kill woodland creatures? If I can bench twice my own weight? If the only time I cry is when I spill my beer or my football team loses?
Ridiculous. Equating "sensitivity" with a lack of "manliness" is absurdly narrow-minded.
I'm a man. I love being a man. And I'm very open with my emotions. And I do my best to be kind and generous to people. Movies make me cry sometimes. I get moved and inspired and excited by things sometimes, and I let people know it. And I'm not embarassed by that.
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Add a second "my thoughts exactly" to that. 
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Originally Posted by abaya
I'm a woman, and I certainly don't feel any less "womanly" after getting myself off... nor do I think of my boyfriend as being less "manly" after he masturbates.
Gender roles/types would be the last thing on my mind (especially because I don't care much for what society says about them, so I try to ignore notions of "manliness" or "womanliness" since neither I nor my bf fit easily into any of those categories, and we like it that way  ).
Here's what goes through my head: "Gee, I'm horny, I want to masturbate," then I do it, and I think, "Ahhh, that felt great." |
And again, taking the words straight out of my mind. Masturbation generally speaking is a release, and a fun one, there's really no more to it than that.
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"The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there’s little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides"
-Carl Sagan
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