This paper provides a narrative review of recent studies (2005–2020) into the content contemporary, mainstream pornography. Sex acts, such as vaginal sex, fellatio, and external ejaculation are ubiquitous within Cunnilingus, solo masturbation, or masturbation partner all also relatively common. Condom use is infrequently depicted. While extreme sexual violence (e.g., rape) rare, acts which some...

Childhood masturbation involves genital manipulation and fondling. During the 2 to 6 years of life most children engage in temporary auto-erotic behavior. Usually these activities occur when the child is alone and may not be noticed by the adults at all(l). Excessive masturbatipn of childhood, which has been defined as open, compulsive masturbating activity in a young child, has been attributed...

In an interesting discussion about which criteria should guide the diagnoses of paraphilias, Quinsey (2012) observed that‘‘in order for a condition to be considered a mental disorder, the condition must represent the failure of some mental mechanism to perform the function for which it was designed by natural selection and the condition must cause some deprivation of benefit (defined in terms o...

NoFap is a community of mostly heterosexual men abstaining from what they see as an addictive cycle pornography, masturbation, and orgasm, induced by the exploitation innate male urges pornography industry. In general population, increased masturbation consumption are associated with psychological factors including low affect, loneliness, boredom, all which may be exacerbated lockdown/social di...

Critical masculinities scholarship has identified a number of ways in which abstention from sex, pornography, and masturbation works to repair reproduce hybrid hegemonic masculinities. Though the mercurial plural nature contemporary online is investigated on fronts, analysis date often pinned down particular subject position, understood predominantly its gendered dimensions. In this article, I ...