Masturbation as Protest Against Rejection

I was reading the sexuality issue of Visions, put out by the Canadian Mental Health Assn BC members.

(See page 22 of http://www.cmha.bc.ca/files/08.pdf)

They said a person should seek help if their means of sexual gratification leads to social isolation.

Specifically, one should seek help if one's behavior "has become a substitute for, rather than part of, a meaningful relationship with another person; that is, the solitary behaviour allows you to avoid intimacy."

Masturbation alone appears to fit this criteria since a typical chronic masturbator usually is socially isolated from potential partner of relational sex.

Consequently, the solitary behavior involved around masturbation allows one to "avoid intimacy."

So, intimacy involves a willing partner? Only in a culture where individualism honored and paraded around is this so.

Methinks Western society stil has hang-ups about masturbation.

I think the fact that it is mainly associated with gay male sexual behavior on the Internet is part of this Western cultural hang-up about masturbation.

Well, I am gonna be anal and in denial about masturbation.

I am not avoiding intimacy; I am trying to be *my type*.

To me masturbation is a protest against hundreds of women suffering "not my type" reaction to me.