It\u2019s refreshing to finally hear women talking about female masturbation. Given the social stigma around the topic, it can be difficult just to bring it up. Unfortunately, too often the conversation doesn\u2019t overcome the unhelpful stereotypes about the female sex drive\u2026or lack thereof.\u00a0<\/span> It\u2019s refreshing to finally hear women talking about female masturbation. Given the social stigma around the topic, it can be difficult just to bring it up. Unfortunately, too often the conversation doesn\u2019t overcome the unhelpful stereotypes about the female sex drive\u2026or lack thereof.\u00a0Time and time again, Christian leaders explain that women masturbate because they want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
<\/span>Time and time again, Christian leaders explain that women masturbate because they want to \u201cfill a void\u201d or have \u201cattachment issues.\u201d These emotional generalizations fail to get at the real problem. When men talk about masturbation (or at least what I have heard and read), everyone pretty much settles on the basics: It\u2019s hard to practice self-control. It\u2019s hard to resist indulging in lust. Really hard. Few men try to psychoanalyze the process, explaining masturbation away by realizing that they secretly have underlying issues relating to real women. (Though, it\u2019s true that many men do struggle to relate to real women in the flesh, if the movie Her is any indication.) Men realize that even if they do resolve those relational issues with women or somehow meet their \u201cunmet needs,\u201d that won\u2019t solve their real problem. Their real problem is lust.\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>Many conversations about female masturbation\u2014including some here on Her.meneutics\u2014are missing that realization. Women are sometimes actually drawn to masturbation and pornography because they desire sexual pleasure. Rather than escaping emotional issues, they simply struggle with lust. In sermons and blog posts, pastors give examples of men committing idolatry by looking at pornography, and women committing idolatry by desiring romance, flagrantly ignoring the number of women who suffer from porn addictions.\u00a0 <\/span>
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