I started masturbating very early and it never occurred to me that it could be unusual. But a while back, a cousin confided in me that she found her very young step-son masturbating, and she was horrified.
I live in a place that's very... let's say... icy, when it comes to anything about sex, so I was never able to talk with friends or relatives about it. The first I knew about sex while growing up, I discovered in the human sexuality section at the library. We had no sex ed in school, my mother never gave me a single word of The Talk, and any time I attempted to broach the subject with a friend, I was met with disgust or vague shaming, despite knowing most of my friends were having sex. (Discovering what sex and masturbation were all by myself turned out to be a very good thing. I don't want to think about what my sex life would be if I hadn't been a precocious reader and my only information came from socialization.)
So, long story short, I'm just wondering when/how you guys started masturbating? And were you shamed for it? Or were you raised with a healthy attitude toward pleasure?
I live in a place that's very... let's say... icy, when it comes to anything about sex, so I was never able to talk with friends or relatives about it. The first I knew about sex while growing up, I discovered in the human sexuality section at the library. We had no sex ed in school, my mother never gave me a single word of The Talk, and any time I attempted to broach the subject with a friend, I was met with disgust or vague shaming, despite knowing most of my friends were having sex. (Discovering what sex and masturbation were all by myself turned out to be a very good thing. I don't want to think about what my sex life would be if I hadn't been a precocious reader and my only information came from socialization.)
So, long story short, I'm just wondering when/how you guys started masturbating? And were you shamed for it? Or were you raised with a healthy attitude toward pleasure?