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To people who haven't bothered with cultivating a sense of sexual enlightenment (and I'm certain those people exist, prob. in pretty high numbers) I would imagine the stigma is rooted in the same old notions that designate a woman's sexual aggression and/or the desire to satisfy her own sexual needs as being bad, dirty, slutty, abnormal, etc. And I would guess that the stigma is perpetuated as much by the personal embarrassment of the woman who is found out to be 'a masturbator' as it is condemnation from her lover. We have come a long way in enabling female sexual freedom, but it is far from the prevailing national attitude, if you ask me. TFP isn't really representative.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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