And I, too, am pretty skeptical of any long-term implications of this study, mainly b/c of the discrepancy of the finding b/w masturbating and sexually active men and for the author’s hypothesized protective effect explanation somehow being untrue at a younger age –> masturbation does not cause testosterone production (as best we know), masturbation may be a general indication of testosterone level.

Keep fighting the good fight, Seb.

I’m not with you at all (@CK).

Are you telling me you KNEW only men have a prostate, but STILL made this ridiculous point Re the Indy?

You say ‘if it were about breast cancer, you can guarantee…’ But you can’t can you? Because such an article doesn’t exist.

It’s stuff like this that makes people think that modern western feminists are so busy finding non issues to carp about that they have forgotten what real feminism is all about…which I hope is not the case here, just commenting on this one.

There’s plenty to complain about in the ‘quality’ press, for example ‘page 3 on the sly’, such as pretty schoolgirl pictures with exam results every year and hugely patronising women’s supplements/magazines containing exactly the same make up/boys/clothes junk that even Just 17 tried to look beyond…yet here you are making absurd judgements on an editorial line based on examples that in this case make you look, frankly, like an idiot. Sorry but that’s how I see it.

The vibrators one is just as bad. It’s a family newspaper FFS, and lets be fair, all of the items are pretty ambiguous and for him/her, so it doesn’t tell you anything about their editorial line.

In fact, all that comment suggest to me is that you read everything with a filter in your head tuned to ‘hypersinsitive on any gender related article and will instantly cry SEXIST!!!!!! at the slightest provocation’.

Still, you’ve got some great links here and I’m all for the cause…we’ve still got a looooooooooooooooooooooooong way to go before we get true and meaningful equality (or rather quality of life, I think there’s lot’s of issues like Paternity leave where men are suffering from sexism too)…so well done on the site, keep up the good stuff but I’d rather you picked out on real, concrete issues you know?

Seb

Cara, your chances of cancer from masturbation are just around zero.

Any statistics on hairy palms or acne? My friend wants to know.

You hit on exactly what drives me crazy – the Bugs Bunny view of gender. When something’s about men, it’s straight forward like “Masturbation can be good for over-50′s” … aka regular Bugs Bunny. When it’s about women, they have to put on the cultural markers of femaleness, like for Bugs, the skirt, lipstick and eyelashes. If it was an article about women, they’d say, “Masturbation can be good for over-50 women.”

It’s the indication that for men, everything is “normal” while for women, it has to be tagged as something for-women… almost like it’s just for women and men can ignore it, while articles implicitly about men can be read by both genders. I feel like this sentiment comes up a lot in movie marketing, too.

1: anal toys. Yeah, there is a vaguely penis-shaped dildo on the list. But nothing really designed for anal play. And while we are on that topic, was anyone else annoyed at the assumption that the singular dildo was for a female partner.

It probably was intended for such. You need certain types of dildos for anal play, ones that are less likely to break under the greater pressure. A hollow ceramic dildo and anal play strikes me as a dangerous combination. That doesn’t make it any less of a heterosexist choice of dildo, but it’s still a fair assumption to make with that particular product.

http://dlisted.com/node/30390

(check out the second the video)