You know what, masturbation has gotten a bad . Thank heavens we now have a month devoted to it because it will take some of us a whole month to erase all the bad press we've collected in our minds about masturbation.

First of all, sexologists, who study these things, have discovered that people who don't treat themselves to a good helping of masturbation every now and then are people who deny themselves other pleasures in life. It's time to think about it and ask -- do I qualify?

Secondly, masturbation is good for our health. It gets the juices flowing and cleans out the jets. Good flow makes for an unclogged sexual system. Or, sex begets more sex.

Thirdly, if we have bad feelings about masturbating, we are probably bringing these feelings into our relationships -- can you spell disaster?

So we've got a whole month to do it till we're blue. And here are some fun things to try to change up your solo sessions and maybe break some new sexual ground:


Touch and feel brand new:

Two things can help get maximum body response from a sexual experience
First is deep breathing.
Second is Kegels

So, begin to masturbate in your usual favorite way. Only start by taking deep breaths, draw the inhale out to a count of 10. Maintain this breathing pattern throughout as much of your masturbation session as possible. You should feel energized, maybe even tingly as you continue masturbating.

Next, kegels: The Kegel muscle is the muscle right above the perineum - when you try to squeeze off your flow of urine, you are using your kegels. There are lots of exercises for kegels. Here are a few:
1) Simply squeeze as tight as you can for as long as you can
2) Lie on your back, bend your knees up and press them together
3) In the same position, place something between your thighs, a paperback book perhaps, and squeeze it.
4) You can also try the above methods by alternating in a rather rhythmic pattern, open, squeeze, open squeeze.

Now once you've found a comfortable kegel exercise and tried it for a few minutes, add your deep breathing. Then start rubbing, pinching or otherwise arousing erogenous parts of your body, other than your genitals. Play with your nipples, your asshole; rub the sides of your thighs; whatever turns you on.

Try to keep as much as you can going while you masturbate, or intermittently as you masturbate, breathe deeply, exercise your kegels and touch your erogenous zones. If you're good, you can devise ways to overcome a lot of logistical difficulties. Bring yourself to hot, hopping orgasm.

Did you have the most super, energized orgasm you've had in a while? If not, try again. Try various combinations of the above while you masturbate until you find one that gives your bop a boost.

Masturbate for Self Awareness

This is for people who are body shy -- that includes some men and just about all women.
Get yourself in front of a mirror and examine your genitals before you start masturbating.
Once you start, watch yourself in the mirror. What happens to you balls? Your pussy lips? Or whatever else you have. Do they get redder? Fuller? Tighter? Looser?

This exercise can be really useful if you take mental notes and jot them down in a notebook shortly after you masturbate to a whopping orgasm. You want to learn about your attitude towards your sexuality. You want to learn about your body parts. You want to practice thinking your genitals look irresistibly sexy.

Next: What are you feeling. Do you feel nervous touching yourself? Do you find your genitals strange to look at, powerful, attractive, depressing, sexy, thrilling, surprising, intense? Jot down some of these feelings. Do the feelings change as you get more and more aroused.

Watch yourself orgasm. What do you think? Jot it down.

You will learn a lot about your attitudes towards your body and sex in general doing this exercise. If the attitudes are somewhat negative, you can begin work to spin them more positively for yourself. The negatives that come up when you are masturbating are going to somehow impact your lovers. If you feel squeamish about your genitals, you might be afraid to get naked or stand-offish during foreplay -- your future partner might think it was something s/he said.

Masturbate for Fantasy

If you masturbate at all, you have probably masturbated to a fantasy at some point. Well, for Masturbation Month, ramp it up. Try to make a fantasy come true in your own little way by adding the sights, sounds, smells, textures, tastes of that fantasy.

Say you want to eat strawberries out of Angelina Jolie's pussy by candle light. Set up and light the candle, get the strawberries. If you're really good, you might want to get one of those futurotic pussies; adult stores carry pussies that even have a bit of bush on them. So place the strawberries in the hole and you're off. Close your eyes by this candle light, bend down, put your lips around that strawberry and picture in your rmind that it's Angelina's box at the other end of that berry. And masturbate away.

You can plan these things out to very intense degrees -- does Jolie use a particular scent (or perhaps market one)? Find out, obtain it, dab some of it on a pair of white lace panties with which you'll dress the rubber dolly cunt.
Smells are powerful -- if your fantasy is to fuck a someone on the hood of your car, you can take a rag and rub it along your oil pan or engine undercarriage to obtain your eau de mechanic's garage.

Set everything up for your other five senses, then close your eyes and picture the visual. The other preparations should enhance your experience.

Masturbate with a friend

You thought you were shy in front of the mirror, wait till you try masturbating with someone else. He does himself; she does herself style. But they watch each other. This might be great for relationships that haven't had the hottest sex, yet. Why? Because a mutual masturbation session is a reconnaissance mission. Look where she touches herself. How much pressure is she using? How much skin on skin -- fingertip, side of hand, four fingers? How wet does she get, does she lick her fingers? How tight does he grip? Does he move all over his cock or stay on the shaft? Does he grab his balls, pinch his nipples? You can learn so many of your partners secrets during mutual masturbation because the object is to watch each other -- it's just that you'll be taking mental notes.

When the person has their orgasm, ask to watch -- if your partner is a woman, ask her to spread her cunt lips open while she's coming so you will be able to watch her small cunt muscles pumping. If your partner's a guy, ask to watch the cum as it shoots out his hole. This little exercise should be fun, informative, and damned hot as hell.

Masturbation for two
If you and a partner tried masturbating with a friend, you might want to progress to this. In masturbation for two, he masturbates her and she masturbates him. Sit side by side and gain access to your partner's genitals. You can do it watching or not watching the partner -- negotiate with your mate.

This works really well if one of the partners has performance anxiety. In the case of a woman, it might be appearance anxiety. The good news for her is, you can mutually masturbate without getting naked. All you need is five-finger access to that pussy. Best if she's wearing a skirt. If she's abnormally shy, you can have her take off only her panties, leaving her pussy available but not visible. Then masturbate her under her skirt.

In the case of performance anxiety, well it's obvious -- erect penis not required. Play this like a game. Start with very soft touching and work your way to your partner's preferred touches in his or her preferred places by hit, miss and ask. "On a scale from one to ten, how does this feel? And this? Am I getting warmer? And so forth.

If you treat this as an opportunity to gather intel, you can't lose. If you try to "make your partner come" you can lose. Set yourself up for a win and try not to be goal oriented.
Well, you can have one goal: "No matter what goes on here (or doesn't go on), I am going to have fun!"

Happy whacking!